Examples of direct speech

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Among the constraints that figure in the development of be like, it is the pragmatic effect contrasting thought with directspeech that is most baffling.
Thus, in directspeech there is only one pragmatic source, viz. the speaker.
These factors have led me to believe that the ñt-less complex dependent sentence originally derives from directspeech.
What follows marks a change from report to the dramatic representation of directspeech.
Directspeech: what's it doing in non-narrative discourse?
Again it is just a short step from true directspeech.
Data were further identified for three textual subtypes: quoted directspeech, general reportage and columns, and letters to the editor.
In directspeech deictics point to the reported speech situation, in indirect speech they point to the actual speech situation.
It has to be regarded as directspeech because it shows neither concord of person or tense.
Thus, (3) contains a piece of directspeech that leads to an undisputed code-switch.
Early marking is found at transition sites, such as text beginning and end, story segments, and directspeech, and proceeds from text boundaries internally.
Directspeech purports to reproduce what another person said, or even how it was said.
That is, although type c can be interpreted as indirect speech for its use of ñt, its gif-clause stays in the same position as in directspeech.
Directspeech was excluded from both calculations.
Finally, as (22b) demonstrates, the purported matrix may follow something that can only have an unembedded status due to the fact that is represents directspeech.
Directspeech and indirect speech: a functional study.
I shall look into his point about interpreters using directspeech and about too much attention being paid to lies.
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