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in·di·rec·t dis·course

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. indirect discoursenoun

    a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'")

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  1. indirect discourse

    In linguistics, indirect speech (also reported speech or indirect discourse) is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse. In fiction, the "utterance" might amount to an unvoiced thought that passes through a stream of consciousness, as reported by an omniscient narrator. In many languages, indirect discourse is expressed using a content clause or infinitival. When an instance of indirect discourse reports an earlier question, the embedded clause takes the form of an indirect question. In indirect speech, grammatical categories in the embedded clause often differ from those in the utterance it reports. For instance, the example above uses the third person pronoun "she" even though Jill's original utterance used the first person pronoun "I". In some languages, including English, the tense of verbs can also be changed following the sequence of tense. Some languages also have a change of mood. For instance Latin indirect speech uses the infinitive for statements and the subjunctive for questions.

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  1. indirect discourse

    Indirect discourse is a method of reporting speech or thought in which the exact phrasing of the original speaker or thinker is not quoted verbatim, but instead paraphrased or summarized. It is also referred to as reported speech or indirect speech and is often used in narrative writing to relay information without using direct quotes. It is often marked by changes in tense, pronouns, and other grammatical structures to reflect the shift from direct quotation to paraphrase or summary.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of indirect discourse in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of indirect discourse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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