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Donna SHALEV, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Verbal nouns as Reports of Speech
The cline between quotation of direct speech and report of speech acts is a broad one, with free indirect speech and oratio obliqua in between the two extremes.
The investigation of the role of verbal nouns in this most mediated mode of speech reporting will address this function of verbal nouns within the range of their other functions.
The phenomenon of using verbal nouns as reported speech in Latin is not a very widespread one, but an analysis of exhaustive examples in a closed corpus will suggest conditions for the choice of this construction; I shall focus on conditions such as verbs involved, the pragmatic contexts of the passages involved, and the strategies of the author.
Most recent modifications: February 18, 2003 – latling@classics.unibo.it
Source: Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale
No rights can be derived from the information on this Internet-page.
The investigation of the role of verbal nouns in this most mediated mode of speech reporting will address this function of verbal nouns within the range of their other functions.
The phenomenon of using verbal nouns as reported speech in Latin is not a very widespread one, but an analysis of exhaustive examples in a closed corpus will suggest conditions for the choice of this construction; I shall focus on conditions such as verbs involved, the pragmatic contexts of the passages involved, and the strategies of the author.
Most recent modifications: February 18, 2003 – latling@classics.unibo.it
Source: Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale
No rights can be derived from the information on this Internet-page.