Abstract
The study presented here investigates how different degrees of conceptual integration, as predicted by direct and indirect reported speech, effect speakers’ prosodic behaviour in interaction. It makes a threeway distinction between authentic direct, false direct and indirect reported speech and predicts that greater conceptual distance, predicted by authentic direct reported speech, will lead to a greater deviation from the speaker’s prosodic habitus with respect to register shifts, while the greater conceptual integration assumed in indirect reported speech will lead to greater prosodic integration.
Kalmanovitch, Yshai