free indirect discourse

English

Noun

free indirect discourse (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of free indirect speech.
    • 1993, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 4,
      Banfield,[1982, Unspeakable Sentences] like most free indirect discourse studies in English, is blithely unaware of the findings presented by nearly a century of German criticism.
    • 2000, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text, Cheryl A. Wall (editor, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Oxford University Press, page 103,
      I use the word double here intentionally, to echo W. E. B. Du Bois's metaphor for the Afro-American's peculiar psychology of citizenship and also to avoid the limited description of free indirect discourse as a "dual voice," in Roy Pascal's term. Rather than a dual voice, free indirect discourse, as manifested in Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a dramatic way of expressing a divided self.
    • 2002, Clara Tuite, Romantic Austen, Cambridge University Press, page 68:
      Free indirect discourse, then, can be seen to be the novelistic technique that enables the development of sympathy as a formal strategy.
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