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Reported speech as an element of argumentative newspaper discourse

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The present article deals with reported speech as an element of argumentation in the newspaper discourse of Great Britain viewed in the unity of its syntactic and semantic characteristics and argumentative functions. Theoretically, the research is based on the dialogic understanding of quotations, the dialogue theory by Bakhtin and contemporary argumentation theory. The proposed integral approach to reported speech combining linguistics with logic and argumentation theory revealed the relations between purely linguistic (syntactic and semantic) characteristics of reported speech with its functioning in argumentative discourse of contemporary British press.

Key Words: argumentation • discourse (argumentative/newspaper discourse) • quotations • reported speech • semantic characteristics • syntactic structures

Discourse & Communication, Vol. 3, No. 1, 79-103 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1750481308098765


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