The marking the end of direct speech in Late Latin

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2016-2-13" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2016-2-13</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2016-2-13" target="_blank" >10.5817/GLB2016-2-13</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The marking the end of direct speech in Late Latin
Original language description
The present paper examines the marking of the end of direct speech in five selected Late Latin texts. It shows that a range of strategies is employed in the texts, among which the use of particles, pronouns and participle constructions was analysed in greater detail. Although the end of direct speech tends to be signalled, none of the means can be viewed as becoming a routinized marker of the end of direct speech in Late Latin as the most frequent one – the particle et "and" – has been found to appear only in 19 % of instances in the examined texts. When an expression was seemingly used in a routine fashion, its higher occurrence was limited to one or two texts and attributed in the present analysis to the style of the author. The most frequent expressions (the particles et and -que "and", demonstrative and relative pronouns) identified do not carry any specific meaning with respect to direct speech, but rather fulfil the function of cohesive devices.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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