Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription conventions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Interactive Footing
- 3 ‘I'm eyeing your chop up mind’: reporting and enacting
- 4 Assessing and accounting
- 5 Getting there first: non-narrative reported speech in interaction
- 6 Reported thought in complaint stories
- 7 Designing contexts for reporting tactical talk
- 8 Active voicing in court
- 9 Speaking on behalf of the public in broadcast news interviews
- 10 The dead in the service of the living
- References
- Index
10 - The dead in the service of the living
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription conventions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Interactive Footing
- 3 ‘I'm eyeing your chop up mind’: reporting and enacting
- 4 Assessing and accounting
- 5 Getting there first: non-narrative reported speech in interaction
- 6 Reported thought in complaint stories
- 7 Designing contexts for reporting tactical talk
- 8 Active voicing in court
- 9 Speaking on behalf of the public in broadcast news interviews
- 10 The dead in the service of the living
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In recent years there have been a number of studies of the use of reported speech in a variety of settings and discursive contexts: in everyday interaction (Tannen, 1986; Mayes, 1990; Holt, 1996); in courtroom interaction (Philips, 1986); in group discussions (Buttny, 1998; Myers, 1999; Buttny and Williams, 2000); in political discussion (Leudar, 1998) and in accounts of anomalous or paranormal experiences (Wooffitt, 1992). Many of these studies depart from the more linguistic and grammatical concerns with reported speech (for example, Coulmas, 1986; Li, 1986) and the exploration of its more psychological or cognitive aspects (Lehrer, 1989), and have instead begun to investigate more sociological questions which are raised when people incorporate another's utterances into ongoing encounters.
For example, Holt (1996) examined conversational instances of direct reported speech – in which the current speaker reproduces the words of another person in such a way as to suggest that this is what was actually said at the time. She reports a number of interactional functions of direct reported speech – for example, reported speech permits the speaker to demonstrate an assessment of the person whose talk is being reported in the way their words are reproduced. It allows the speaker to display what he or she considers to be, for example, the relevant attitudes, opinions, personality traits or general state of mind of the person whose talk they are reporting at the time it was originally produced.
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- Reporting TalkReported Speech in Interaction, pp. 244 - 269Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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