The nature, function, and performance of indirect discourse in prose fiction

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Indirect discourse is one style of address used by narrators of prose fiction to condition the reader's response to characters. Through this mode of speech, thoughts and conversations are rendered through circuitous rather than direct means, and both narrative and character points of view are represented simultaneously. This paper discusses what the oral interpreter discovers about the nature, functions, and effects of two basic types of indirect discourse (indirect speech and free indirect speech) during his voicing of the literary text and suggests ways in which the interpreter can reflect the characteristics of indirect discourse during solo and group performance.

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