Reporting discourse has attracted rigorous analyses in linguistics, literary theory, cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnomethodology. This book provides an

The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional proble

In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional prop

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