Ebook: Reported discourse and logophoricity in Southern Hokkaido dialects of Ainu

Chiba University: Gengo Kenkyu （言語研究） 2008, 133: 31–75 p.This paper attempts to provide a systematic description of reported discourse (RD) categories in Southern Hokkaido dialects of Ainu from syntactic, discourse-functional, historical and typological perspectives. While RD has been analysed in the previous literature either as “quotations” or as direct vs. indirect discourse, I argue, based on a continuum approach, that Ainu has three main RD-constructions distinguished by person deixis as a core principle in determining the orientation of RD: (i) direct discourse (DRD) with the author’s perspective, (ii) indirect discourse (IRD) with the reporter’s perspective, and (iii) semi-direct discourse (SRD) with the combined perspective of the author and reporter. In the case of SRD, use of the so-called “indefinite person” in the case of coreference of the third/second person author with a participant in the quote indicates a consistent reporter-oriented shift in pronominal reference, while the other references occur as they would have been used in the original discourse. I propose to identify Tamura’s (2000: 74) ‘first person in quotes’ usage of the indefinite person as logophoric in the sense of Hagège (1974). In this analysis SRD, DRD, and IRD are regarded as stylistic and discourse-organizing options, though some of them have been conventionalized as primary styles in certain folklore genres.