Reported speech and thought in Kavalan

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dc.citation.journalTitleRice Working Papers in Linguistics
dc.citation.volumeNumber1
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Haowen
dc.contributor.orgLinguistics Department
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-11T22:40:34Z
dc.date.available2009-02-11T22:40:34Z
dc.date.issued2009-02-11
dc.description.abstractOne of the amazing characteristics of human language is self-reference, that is, referring to itself by means of itself. This language-with-language phenomenon is most evident in reported discourse, where speech, thought, and perception tend to be interconnected. Hence, this paper investigates reported speech (RS) and reported thought (RT) in Kavalan, an endangered Austronesian language, by focusing on the quotative marker zin, which frames either a speech event or a mental event. Based on our present corpus, it is found that in narratives reported speech is nearly twice as frequent as reported thought, with instances of reported speech almost exclusively framed by third person pronouns. In conversations, however, the situation is reversed, namely, reported thought is twice more frequent than reported speech, with instances of reported thought almost exclusively framed by first person pronouns. Our study shows that self-report of thought is the norm in conversations while other-report of speech is predominant in narratives.
dc.identifier.citationJiang, Haowen. "Reported speech and thought in Kavalan." <i>Rice Working Papers in Linguistics,</i> 1, (2009) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21852">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21852</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/21852
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subject.keywordlinguistics
dc.subject.keywordlanguage
dc.subject.keywordreported discourse
dc.subject.keywordquotative maker
dc.subject.keywordKavalan
dc.subject.keywordAustronesian languages
dc.titleReported speech and thought in Kavalan
dc.typeJournal article
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