Abstract

REPEDE, Doina. DIRECT AND INDIRECT REPORTED SPEECH: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY IN THE CORPUS ENCUESTAS DE HABLA URBANA OF SEVILLE. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2019, n.76, pp.42-64. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n76a02.

This study describes the use of reported speech in a sample of 72 oral interviews taken from the corpus Encuestas de habla urbana of Seville, based on linguistic, pragmatic and social criteria. The results showed that the questioned informants preferred to use direct speech. The most frequently introducing frame was the canonic one -with a verb- and decir was the most employed verb to report. They also prefer to report their own and others’ words by using direct reported speech. Regarding the social factors, the third generation and the low sociolect show a bigger tendency to the reported speech use.

Keywords : Direct Reported Speech; Indirect Reported Speech; Semi-Controlled Interviews; Sociolinguistics; Corpus.