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Hirose, Yukio. 1995. Direct and indirect speech as quotations of public and private expression. Lingua 95 (4) : 223–238.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0024-3841

Annotation

This paper presents a general hypothesis which, together with concepts called public and private self, can provide a unified account of complicated syntactic and semantic characteristics of direct and indirect speech in Japanese. Direct and indirect speech are considered as quotations of respectively public and private expressions which designate two different levels of linguistic expression, corresponding to two different functions of language.