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[Robin Shoaps]

Hi Oliver,

I don't want to belabor the obvious, but have you looked at Anne Banfield's
work? You may also want to consider Part 3 of Chafe's (1994) _Discourse,
Consciousness and Time_.

I myself have worked quite a bit with direct and indirect reported speech and
have found Bakhtin and Voloshinov to be the most useful.

Good luck with your project.

Best,

Robin Shoaps

Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93107

Oliver Komnenovic wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I am a final-year student of English and Italian at the University of
> Ljubljana, Slovenia. My field of study includes English-Slovene-Italian
> contrastive analysis, discourse analysis, cultural studies and politics. The
> subject of my Italian diploma thesis is a textual analysis of two chapters
> from Giorgio Bassani`s novel `Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini` with a special
> emphasis on the author`s use of the free indirect speech (FIS)/ discorso
> indiretto libero (DIL) and how it is reflected in English and Slovenian
> translations. I will appreciate any suggestion or information about the
> relevant topic, since publications dealing with FIS seem to thin on the
> ground
>
> Best regards
> Oliver Komnenovic