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Meaning of "reported speech" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REPORTED SPEECH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPORTED SPEECH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Reported speech is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REPORTED SPEECH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Indirect speech

Indirect speech, also called reported speech or indirect discourse, is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech. For example, He said "I'm coming" is direct speech, whereas He said he was coming is indirect speech. Indirect speech should not be confused with indirect speech acts. In terms of grammar, indirect speech often makes use of certain syntactic structures such as content clauses ("that" clauses, such as (that) he was coming), and sometimes infinitive phrases. References to questions in indirect speech frequently take the form of interrogative content clauses, also called indirect questions (such as whether he was coming). In indirect speech certain grammatical categories are changed relative to the words of the original sentence. For example, person may change as a result of a change of speaker or listener (as I changes to he in the example above). In some languages, including English, the tense of verbs is often changed – this is often called sequence of tenses.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPORTED SPEECH

repopularise
repopularize
repopulate
repopulation
report
report card
report stage
reportable
reportage
reported clause
reportedly
reporter
reporter gene
reporters´ gallery
reporting
reporting restrictions
reportingly
reportorial
reportorially
reposal

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPORTED SPEECH

acceptance speech
beech
budget speech
curtain speech
deaf without speech
direct speech
figure of speech
free speech
hate speech
indirect speech
keynote speech
King´s speech
leech
maiden speech
nonspeech
part of speech
Queen´s speech
speech
stump speech
visible speech

Synonyms and antonyms of reported speech in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «reported speech» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPORTED SPEECH

Find out the translation of reported speech to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of reported speech from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «reported speech» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

报道讲话
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estilo indirecto
570 millions of speakers

English

reported speech
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रिपोर्ट भाषण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذكرت كلمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

косвенная речь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

discurso relatado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরোক্ষ উক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

discours rapporté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ucapan yang dilaporkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

indirekte Rede
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

報告されたスピーチ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보고 연설
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

kacarita wicara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bài phát biểu báo cáo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேசிய பேச்சு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अहवाल भाषण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bildirilen konuşma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

il discorso indiretto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mowa zależna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непряма мова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

discurs raportat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναφερθεί ομιλία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gerapporteerde spraak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rapporterade tal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rapportert tale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of reported speech

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPORTED SPEECH»

The term «reported speech» is regularly used and occupies the 59.799 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPORTED SPEECH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «reported speech» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «reported speech» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about reported speech

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPORTED SPEECH»

Discover the use of reported speech in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reported speech and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reported Speech: Forms and Functions of the Verb
They originate in two different clauses: one clause signals a reporting situation, and the other a reported situation. This volume examines the methods used for combining these two types of clauses in a range of languages.
Theodorus Albertus Johannes Maria Janssen, Wim van der Wurff, 1996
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Reporting Talk: Reported Speech in Interaction
Bringing together work from the most recent investigations in conversation analysis, this book will be invaluable to all those interested in the study of interaction, in particular how we report the speech of others, and the different forms ...
Elizabeth Holt, Rebecca Clift, 2006
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Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics
These innovative essays represent a critique of those researchers in the humanities and social sciences who fail to take language seriously.
John A. Lucy, 1993
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Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
NIKO BESNIER Introduction Reported speech is both the representation of linguistic actions and commentaries about these actions. This chapter investigates how the "representation" and the "commentary" may interact with each other in the ...
Jane H. Hill, Judith T. Irvine, 1993
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The Pragmatics of Interaction
Reported. speech. Elizabeth Holt University of Huddersfield 1. Introduction Typically the term 'reported speech' is used to refer to the presentation of discourse that purports to be from a prior occasion, and may originate from another author.
Sigurd D'hondt, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, 2009
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Doing Justice to Court Interpreting
Interpreting reported speech in witnesses' evidence Jieun Lee Macquarie University Drawing on the discourse of interpreter-mediated examinations of Korean- speaking witnesses in an Australian courtroom, this paper explores court  ...
Miriam Shlesinger, Franz Pöchhacker, 2010
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Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics
The opposite kind of pictorial speech reverses control, so that somehow the reported speech "begins to resolve, as it were, the reporting context, instead of the other way around" (ibid.). The reporting author begins to perceive his own speech ...
Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, 1990
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Reported speech, or quoting, is a suitable subject for this crucial role because it is so simple and ubiquitous a phenomenon. Reported speech is "speech within speech, utterance within utterance, and at the same time also speech about ...
Katerina Clark, Michael Holquist, 1984
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Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines
So reported speech refers not to an 'object' or 'state of affairs' in the world, but to the sense of the expression, and Frege in fact called 'indirect sense' the sense of the expression in reported speech, distinct from that in direct speech (IFP, 89).
Marian Hobson, 1998
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Identity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse
I center the analysis on reported speech as this narrative resource is used to underscore important aspects of the story world. I argue that narrators construct a narrated speaking space in which certain characters and actions are highlighted,  ...
Anna De Fina, 2003

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPORTED SPEECH»

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US Rep. Scalise Under Fire For Reported Speech To White …
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, is facing criticism over a speech he reportedly made to a gathering of white supremacists in 2002. «NPR, Dec 14»

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