I Tell You That Self-Quotation Is Reported Speech

In this article, I study self-quotation within a corpus of spoken French conversations. I begin with a few unproblematic examples of speech & thought presentation in the first person in the past or in iterative contexts before examining more contentious occurrences, i.e. performative expression such as je dis (que) X ("I say (that) X") & modal expressions such as je pense (que) X ("I think (that) X"). I then present several arguments in favour of including these expressions within the scope of reported speech (or thought) because in my view this enlarged interpretation significantly enriches my analysis of speech & thought presentation strategies in the spoken French corpus. References. Adapted from the source document