Speech And Thought Representation In English —— A Cognitive-Functional Approach

----- 英语中话语与思想的代表

ISBN: 9783110205893 出版年：2009 页码：400 Vandelanotte, Lieven De Gruyter Mouton

This book aims to provide a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English on the basis of the systematic study of deictic, syntactic and semantic properties of authentic examples drawn from literary as well as non-literary sources. In the area beyond direct and indirect speech or thought, ′;free indirect discourse′ has often been implicitly treated as a residual category that can accommodate anything that is neither one nor the other. This book takes a fresh look at the evidence in the area of deixis, particularly through a close study of pronoun and proper name use, and proposes to distinguish the more character-oriented free indirect type from a narrator-oriented ′;distancing′ indirect type, which is grammatically wholly structured from the narrator′s deictic standpoint. Unlike free indirect representations, which coherently represent the character′s viewpoint, the distancing indirect type sees narrators appropriating character discourse for their own purposes, which may for instance be ironic. The distinctions thus drawn shed new light on the much debated ′;dual voice′ approach to free indirect discourse. Included in the scope of this book are subjectified uses of clauses such as I think, which no longer primarily construe a cognition process, but rather come to function as hedges.