Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Authors’ biographies vii
4. Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives xi
5. Part I. Discourse perspectives
6. Impersonal quotation and hypothetical discourse 3
7. By three means 37
8. Part II. Typological perspectives
9. Minds divided 71
10. Thetic speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type 117
11. Part III. Functional and formal perspectives
12. On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse 145
13. Quotative go and be like 173
14. Quotation in sign languages 203
15. Part IV. Language variation and change
16. Performed narrative 231
17. Dutch quotative van 259
18. Glossary of specialist terms for research in quotation 281
19. Author index 291
20. Index of terms 293