A Review of Research on Direct Reported Speech

Abstract

Being an interest in different fields, Direct Reported Speech (DRS) is mainly studied in linguistics and sociology as a complex phenomenon in texts and conversations. This paper makes a review of research on DRS according to different research orientations in the fields of syntactic, semantic, phonetic, pragmatic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and Conversation Analytic studies, providing an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding DRS and future studies on it.