indirect discourse

The narrative sometimes slips into free indirect discourse.

Among other uses, information may be given in this form to indicate indirect speech, also called indirect discourse.

A common technique in his work is mixing character's speech with narrative, without making any kind of distinction,(free indirect discourse).

Davidson himself contributed many details to such a theory, in essays on quotation, indirect discourse, and descriptions of action.

Outside of indirect discourse, an aorist participle may express any time (past, present, or rarely future) relative to the main verb.

Some argue that free indirect discourse was also used by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales.

In Medieval Latin, however, this was still indirect discourse and was not yet used as simply a Future Tense.

Aorist in indirect discourse refers to past time relative to the main verb, since it replaces an aorist indicative.

Cicero, De Natura Deorum, where it is reported in "indirect discourse".

MPAA spokeswoman, indirect discourse: "She says the numbers weren't far out of line with what the industry expected."

This new syntax for Indirect Discourse is among the most prominent features of Medieval Latin, and the largest syntactical change.

Bowen's writing style frequently involves a slow pace that builds to a crescendo, and a usage of free indirect discourse and stream of consciousness.

But the solicitous censorship by indirect discourse that pretends to shield readers from blasphemy only underscores the storyteller's delight in scaring those readers.

"9.11 From here on, the reader will note that what obviously is indirect discourse has been put within quotation marks or in quotations in the form of extracts.

(It is also referred to as free indirect discourse, free indirect style, or discours indirect libre in French.)

Such pronouns are used to refer to the source of a reported statement or thought in indirect discourse, and can disambiguate sentences that are ambiguous in most other languages.

Austen uses a narrative technique known as free indirect discourse (FID) to represent Anne Elliot's consciousness in Persuasion.

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

Virginia Woolf in her novels To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway frequently relies on free indirect discourse to take us into the minds of her characters.

"Isabelle de Montolieu Reads Anne Elliot's Mind: Free Indirect Discourse in La Famille Elliot."

In the following lines the self-delighting mimicry works like indirect discourse to integrate the character's pleasure in impersonating a hermit with the narrator's pleasure in impersonating the character:

The narrator often relates Maria's feelings to the reader through the new technique of free indirect discourse, which blurs the line between the third-person narrator and the first-person dialogue of a text.

Indirect speech, also called reported speech or indirect discourse, is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech.

Probably this is because he makes liberal use of free, indirect discourse, the standard public radio trick of simulated empathy: it's the version of the third person that stays deep inside the head of the subject.