Reporting vs. pretending. Degrees of identification in role play and reported speech
In both role play and reported speech, the actual speaker purports to present the speech of someone else. I analyse and compare the different perspectives that are involved in role play utterances and direct and indirect speech reports. I argue for a conceptual distinction between role play utterances and speech reports and discuss three criteria to distinguish them: (a) metalinguistic marking, (b) communicative intention, and (c) embodiment. Based on this analysis, I propose a hierarchy of identification with the other person, in which role play exhibits the highest degree of identification and indirect speech the lowest.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Perspective
- 2.1Two notions of perspective
- 2.2Perspectives in role play
- 2.3Perspectives in direct and indirect speech
- 3.Differences between role play utterances and speech reports
- 3.1Metalinguistic marking
- 3.2Communicative intention
- 3.3Embodiment
- 4.Hierarchy of identification
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