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Publication details [#38966]

Coulmas, Florian. 1985. Direct and indirect speech: General problems and problems of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (1) : 41–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | form | indirect speech | reported speech

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper first deals with direct and indirect speech in general and with degrees of faithfulness to the form and content of the reported utterance, and then focuses on peculiarities of indirect speech in Japanese.