Temporal Interpretation of Tense in Reported Speech

DOI

10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.139How to use a DOI?

Keywords

temporal interpretation; tense; reported speech;context

Abstract

This paper focuses on temporal interpretation of tense in reported speech with examples of past reporting clauses in English news texts. Tense in English expresses a relation between Speech Time, Reference Time and Situation Time. It is one of the important linguistic devices that contribute to temporal location. The information of temporal interpretation is conveyed by analyzing features of tense use from context-based point of view. And analysis shows that tense in reported speech in English news texts conveys a distinguished feature of being context-based.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Temporal Interpretation of Tense in Reported Speech
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Academic Workshop on Social Science
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