direct discourse

Our legislation requires that at least 30 minutes of each debate be devoted to direct discourse between the candidates.

This is not unlike reconstructing a supposed conversation and setting it down as direct discourse.

"Usually one personality dominates, or the other; they don't hold direct discourses." '

For Israel, negotiations on a nuclear-free zone would be a way to engage in direct discourse with Arab neighbors.

The primary characters, Trotti and the two subalterns with whom he works, employ a more restrained, direct discourse.

Instead it takes as its model the typically eighteenth-century genres of direct discourse: the epistolary novel, the journal novel, and the fictional autobiography.

In current practice, the acronym is not used in direct discourse with the President - nobody says, "How are you feeling this morning, Potus?"

With this sudden remembrance, the narration describes Ben Loy's rendezvous with a prostitute through third person direct discourse.

But in direct discourse he is a graceful and courteous man who speaks respectfully to others, peculiar traits that sometimes leave him at a disadvantage when directly attacked.

Faye Edgerton, "Relative frequency of direct discourse and indirect discourse in Sierra Chontal and Navajo Mark."

Bjork, Robert E. The Old English Verse Saints' Lives: A Study in Direct Discourse and the Iconography of Style.

This idealized presupposition directs discourses concerning truth and normative certainty beyond the contingencies of specific communicative situations and towards the idealized achievements of universal consensus and universal validity.

It is notable that this feature, which occurs in direct discourse, is also characteristic of the language of the narrator, so that descriptive passages are mimetic of the thought patterns of the characters.

For any and every straightforward genre, any and every direct discourse - epic, tragic, lyric, philosophical - may, and indeed must itself become the object of representation, the object of a parodic travestying 'mimicry'.

Cocoliche speakers, however, despite showing an independently established ability to handle the subjunctive 'simply refrain from using indirect discourse, and use direct discourse instead, i.e. quotations preceded by a form of the performative 'to say'(digo,dice )'(Lavandera 1978a: 399).

Because I wanted to preserve the accuracy of the original document and the exact wording used or recorded, I decided it was best to refrain from tampering with these accounts by rendering them into first-person direct discourse or by excluding them from within quotation marks.