[Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

[Alan Rumsey]

Further to Adam Schembri’s very apposite posting on this question, and reference to Hodge and Kearsy (2019), at an upcoming conference at ANU, Gabrielle Hodge will be giving a related presentation  on ‘Indexicality of enactment in signed
Interactions’. For the date and time of it, and Zoom link, see the conference program at https://www.dropbox.com/s/8byejqqwehn9qea/Multimodality%20conference%20announcement_2.pdf?dl=0  Some of the other presentations at the conference may also be of interest to people on this list. Its overall theme is ‘Sign, gesture and communicative multimodality in cross-cultural perspective’.





From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Adam Schembri <A.Schembri at bham.ac.uk>
Date: Sunday, 19 June 2022 at 3:54 pm
To: "Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

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<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1515%2Flingty-2019-0008&data=05%7C01%7CAlan.Rumsey%40anu.edu.au%7C9027ede9e03441d1ddf308da51b81b4c%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637912148491925594%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zlmRQJ7jUi3VHre8ovDqYXT1F7jPaDcWuG7sUFNlTas%3D&reserved=0>


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:

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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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