Attribution and the discourse structure of reports

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI:10.5210/dad.2023.102

E. Maier

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Abstract

I propose a discourse-level analysis of report constructions. Indirect discourse, mixed and direct quotation, free indirect discourse, and attitude ascriptions are all analyzed in terms of a discourse relation of ATTRIBUTION, connecting two propositional discourse units corresponding to (i) a frame segment (he said, she dreamed) and a (possibly complex, multi-sentence) report (“I’m an idiot”, (that) she was president). I provide a unified semantics for the discourse relation of ATTRIBUTION that invokes a flexible notion of ‘characterization’. A discourse unit may characterize a speech event by reproducing its linguistic surface form (as in quotation) or its propositional content (as in indirect speech and attitude reports), or some mixture of both (as in mixed quotation or free indirect discourse). I formalize this unified discourse-level ATTRIBUTION approach to reporting within the general framework of SDRT, and apply it to direct, indirect, and free indirect reports that extend beyond the single embedded or quoted clause. The resulting account is the first to do justice to the complex internal dependencies within stretches of reported discourse.

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报道的归因与语篇结构

本文提出对报告结构进行语篇层面的分析。间接引语、混合引语和直接引语、自由间接引语和态度归因都是根据归因的话语关系来分析的，它连接了两个命题话语单元，分别对应于(i)框架段(他说，她做梦)和(可能是复杂的，多句的)报道(“我是白痴”，(that) she was president)。我为归因的话语关系提供了一个统一的语义，它调用了一个灵活的“表征”概念。话语单位可以通过再现言语事件的语言表面形式(如引语)或其命题内容(如间接引语和态度报告)，或两者的混合(如混合引语或自由间接引语)来表征言语事件。我将这种统一的话语级归因方法正式应用于SDRT总体框架内的报告，并将其应用于超出单个嵌入或引用条款的直接、间接和自由间接报告。由此产生的解释是第一个公正地对待报道话语范围内复杂的内部依赖关系的。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

CiteScore

1.90

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0.00%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

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