Direct reported speech in storytellings: Enacting and negotiating epistemic entitlements

• DOI: 10.1515/text-2015-0023
• Publication Date: 2015-11-30T17:01:43Z
• Authors: Evelyne Berger; Simona Pekarek Do...
• Keywords: Paralanguage; Conversation Analysis; Indirect speech; Representation; Discursive psychology

Abstract This paper presents a study of participants’ use direct reported speech (DRS) in storytelling during dinner table conversation French. Focusing on dialogues, the analysis corroborates earlier analytic findings showing that speakers regularly linguistic, prosodic and paralinguistic resources to stage characters whose is being reported; thereby display their stance behalf those conduct. Additionally, documents DRS within dialogues as powerful means for depicting own adequate conduct face purportedly “deviant” third party. In specific context our data, which an au-pair interacts with her host family, such are used both by mother au pair enact shared expectations about appropriateness caregiver’s child. light these findings, representation past appears practical resource participants identities caregiver reflexively construct negotiate related epistemic entitlements.