Reporting Talk: Reported Speech in Interaction

Book Overview

Reported speech, whereby we quote the words of others, is used in many different types of interaction. In this revealing study, a team of leading experts explore how reported speech is designed, the actions it is used to perform, and how it fits into the environments in which it is used. Using contemporary techniques of conversation analysis, the authors show how speech is reported in a wide range of contexts - including ordinary conversation, storytelling,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521824834
• ISBN13: 9780521824835
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"