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(2016) The pragmatics of indirect reports, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter deals with the social practice of indirect reports and treats them as cases of language games. It proposes a number of principles like the following:Paraphrasis/Form PrincipleThe that-clause embedded in the verb 'say" is a paraphrasis of what Y said, and meets the following constraints: should Y hear what X said he (Y) had said, he would not take issue with it, as to content, but would approve of it as a fair paraphrasis of his original utterance. Furthermore, he would not object to vocalizing the assertion made out of the words following the complementizer "that" on account of its form/style.The upshot of the chapter is that opacity in indirect reports is the result of applying pragmatic principles.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41078-4_2
Full citation:
Capone, A. (2016). On the social practice of indirect reports, in The pragmatics of indirect reports, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-51.
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