Talk:Free indirect speech

message: Free indirect discourse is also in Jane Austen's Emma
Free indirect discourse is in all of Austen's work, have added a brief reference to her status as 'first' FID user, this could be elaborated with examples. Have tried to make the specification of FID more accurate too, but needs more work. --looceefir 23:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Examples would be really useful in this article.  I'm not a big reader of Austen, but if we're going to highlight her she should have at least one or two quotes.  I'll try to keep my eyes open for something from elsewhere, too.  /blahedo (t) 20:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Austen 

message: I merged Discours indirect libre into this article. Please feel free to revert if you think something is lost, but I believe it's obvious both articles should be merged eventually, as they discuss exactly the same subject, the only difference being that one is an original article and the other a translation of the equivalent article in the French Wikipedia.
The main changes I made are:
1. Rearranged the article into sections - most of the non-redundant content of the French article went into the Comparison section.
2. Omitted the 'Effect' section from the French article, since it seemed mostly redundant.
3. Translated the examples from French. My translation is far from literal, as I tried to exemplify the main points of difference between the three kinds of speech, instead of keeping in line with the original, but it may still be a bit shaky, as I am native neither in English nor in French.
In Omne (talk) 18:02, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: Why is direct speech redirecting to this article? It got hardly anything to do with direct speech. --89.246.209.150 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 20:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct Speech 

message: Hi,
I'm a student from Germany who has to repeat indirect speech. We exercise backshift of times. Shouln't this be mentioned in this article? --MartinThoma (talk) 12:02, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar - Backshift of times 

message: The template on Narrative is found at the bottom of many articles, specifically Narration. Perhaps this article could be included in the Narrator line of articles. I have not edited a template like that, and believe it might require some agreement to get this narrative point of view included in the table of so many other aspects of a novel.   --Prairieplant (talk) 07:17, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add this to the Narrative template? 

message: I don't think either To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway use indirect discourse, or at least not notably.  Both are noted for stream of consciousnesss, which should not be confused with indirect discourse as is frequently done. In Molly Bloom's stream of consciousness in Ulysses, the reader is immersed in her "I" point of view.  In indirect discourse, the narration stays in third person.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contributor61 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indirect discourse vs stream of consciousness 

message: As a Latinist, I don't think Latin oratio obliqua qualifies as free indirect speech: it is the normal construction for reported speech. The English translation of the Caesar passage given uses free indirect speech, but this is misleading. Oratio obliqua is syntactically marked (by the accusative and infinitive construction) as reported speech, while the crucial feature of free indirect speech is that it isn't so marked.
There are cases of true free indirect speech in Latin literature, but a far as I know they're limited to questions, e.g. "Quid agat?" "What should he do?"
I think the section should be removed, and will do so unless someone objects. Trecht (talk) 04:40, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with you. Novellasyes (talk) 19:27, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin oratio obliqua -- free indirect?