Abstract

ALARCON NEVE, Luisa Josefina. Cita directa e indirecta en la construcción narrativa de estudiantes escolares mexicanos. Enunciación [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.1, pp.29-47. ISSN 0122-6339.  https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14483/22486798.15553.

A descriptive-comparative study about the uses of direct and indirect quotations in the narrative of students of different school grades is presented in the article. The objective was to find tendencies in the use of the reported speech linked to different moments of development. The study corpus is formed by oral stories from 80 schoolchildren (20 participants per grade, 1st, 3rd, 6th and 9th) from different public, urban schools in the center of Mexico. They were obtained by retelling a previously told story, and by telling stories shown in illustrations. A quantitative analysis of the direct and indirect quotations in the production of each narrator was carried out. Afterwards, the frequencies were compared among school grades. This comparison had statistical assessment using .. Results show that the younger ones tend to report directly the dialogues of the original listened story, and they include few quotes in their more autonomous stories. The older ones, on the contrary, are prone to quote indirectly in the report, generating more narrative texts, but in their autonomous stories the direct quotation predominates.

Keywords : quotation; reported speech; narrative.

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