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Publication details [#57361]

Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva. 2013. Direct reported speech as a frame for meta-narration. Pragmatics 23 (3) : 481–498.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metacommunication | participant reference | reflexive construction | reported speech | storytelling

Language as a subject

Spanish | Totonac

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper discusses how in Mexican bilingual Totonac-Spanish storytelling the reflective resource of direct reported speech frames metanarrative comments, which only appear to occur in the rare cases in which the audience’s comprehension seems at risk from the teller’s viewpoint.