Reporting non-serious speech

pp. 121-144

in: Alessandro Capone, The pragmatics of indirect reports, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

This chapter is an attempt to reconcile sociopragmatics a là Mey (2001) with more philosophical approaches to indirect reports. The result is hybrid, but not one to be ashamed of. Indirect reporting is the testing bed for a socio-pragmatic theory and I will show that socio-pragmatics has something to say about constraints on reporting what one said. In this chapter, I capitalize on advances made in the theory of indirect reports in a very fruitful paper by Norrick (2016).