On the (Complicated) Relationship Between Direct and Indirect Reports

In this chapter, I discuss subtle differences between direct and indirect reports, to conclude that they are mainly a matter of degree, although there are non-negligible syntactic differences, as direct reports admit interjections, while indirect reports,

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Alessandro Capone

The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports Socio-philosophical Considerations

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology Volume 8

Editor-in-Chief Alessandro Capone, University of Messina, Italy Consulting Editors Keith Allan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Louise Cummings, Nottingham Trent University, UK Wayne A. Davis, Georgetown University, Washington, USA Igor Douven, Paris-Sorbonne University, France Yan Huang, University of Auckland, New Zealand Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York at Albany, USA Franco Lo Piparo, University of Palermo, Italy Antonino Pennisi, University of Messina, Italy Editorial Board Members Noel Burton-Roberts, University of Newcastle, UK Brian Butler, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA Felice Cimatti, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy Eros Corazza, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv University, Israel Michael Devitt, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alessandra Falzone, University of Messina, Italy Neil Feit, State University of New York, Fredonia, USA Alessandra Giorgi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Larry Horn, Yale University, New Haven, USA Klaus von Heusinger, University of Stuttgart, Germany Katarzyna Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge, UK Ferenc Kiefer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Kepa Korta, ILCLI, Donostia, Spain Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Fabrizio Macagno, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Tullio De Mauro, ‘La Sapienza’ University, Rome, Italy Jacob L. Mey, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Pietro Perconti, University of Messina, Italy Francesca Piazza, University of Palermo, Italy Roland Posner, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany Mark Richard, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Stephen R. Schiffer, New York University, USA Michel Seymour, University of Montreal, Canada Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford, UK Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Dorota Zielińska, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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Alessandro Capone

The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports Socio-philosophical Considerations

Alessandro Capone University of Messina Barcellona PG ME, Italy

ISSN 2214-3807 ISSN 2214-3815 (electronic) Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology ISBN 978-3-319-41077-7 ISBN 978-3-319-41078-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41078-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016954423 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustr

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