[Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

[Adam Schembri]

If direct speech is also a type of enactment in both spoken and signed languages, and the multimodal nature of spoken languages has been under-documented in the typological literature, I do wonder how we can make claims about the use of direct speech in all languages.

Hodge, Gabrielle and Cormier, Kearsy. "Reported speech as enactment " Linguistic Typology, vol. 23, no. 1, 2019, pp. 185-196. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0008


From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of "denys.teptiuk at gmail.com" <denys.teptiuk at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, 16 June 2022 at 09:09
To: Mark Donohue <mhdonohue at gmail.com>
Cc: "lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

Just a thought, but 'languages devoid of utterance complement clauses' is not the same as 'languages devoid of direct speech/reported speech’, although it is an interesting list and an interesting discussion!

Best,
Denys


On 16. Jun 2022, at 11:02, Mark Donohue <mhdonohue at gmail.com<mailto:mhdonohue at gmail.com>> wrote:

https://wals.info/feature/128A#1/28/149

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-Mark


On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 17:29, Jocelyn Aznar <contact at jocelynaznar.eu<mailto:contact at jocelynaznar.eu>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Working on reporting speech at the moment, and more precisly on direct
speech, I was wondering whether it has been once reported that a speech
community wouldn't practice reported speech or direct speech. I'd be
also interested by any report or examples from corpus of direct speech
that cannot be identified using morphological or syntactical clues.

I know of course that indirect speech, or other forms of reported speech
else than direct speech, are not so common, but has it been reported
that a particular speech community wouldn't practice at all reported
speech ? or have you read about a speech community which didn't produce
direct speech?

Having sent the email with the wrong address first, Daniel Ross had the
opportunity to tell me about the word of Daniel Everett on Pirahã. I
will take a look at Everett's decriptions and the documentary Grammar of
Happiness where there should be an interested occurrence of direct speech.

Best,
Jocelyn Aznar,
postdoc at ZAS,
Berlin

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