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Unspeakable Sentences
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Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction is a study of sentences in free indirect speech
and its limitations, published in 1982 by American linguist Ann Banfield
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Free indirect speech
Free indirect speech is a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech...
and its limitations, published in 1982 by American linguist Ann Banfield
Ann Banfield
Ann Banfield, a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.She has taught at Berkeley since 1975 and is a specialist in linguistics, critical theory and the use of philosophy as a cornerstone of modernism...
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