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[zmaalej]

Welcome to the List Oliver,

Work on Free Indirect Speech might be thin on the ground, but some of that
thin portion is substantially quite thick. I am thinking in particular of
the Lancaster school led by Mick Short and the polemic between the group and
Paul Simpson on this very issue. See, for instance, (if you haven't seen it
yet), Short's (1996) _Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose_
(London/New York: Longman). You can also access the group's webpage, and
download corpora of texts they used for speech and thought presentation.

Regards

Zouhair Maalej

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Komnenovic <oliver.komnenovic at SIOL.NET>
To: DISCOURS at linguist.ldc.upenn.edu <DISCOURS at linguist.ldc.upenn.edu>
Date: 11 ãÇÑÓ, 1999 13:08


>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
>