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Van De Mieroop, Dorien; Clifton, Jonathan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Direct reported speech has been described as serving many functions in stories, such as increasing vividness, creating authenticity, and enhancing audience involvement. Drawing on Bamberg's model of positioning and focusing on reported exchanges, we argue that through its "constructed sequentiality" and its use of discourse strategies, direct…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Slavery, Interviews, Personal Narratives