The Marking of Reported Discourse in Medieval French Manuscripts

This article studies how reported speech is marked in medieval texts both visually for the reader of manuscripts & orally for the listener (medieval texts being sung, recited, or in any case read aloud). It examines morphosyntactic, discursive, & lexical marking as well as prosody, & it pays particular attention to manuscript punctuation, a field that is still very much understudied at the moment. The study takes into account the type of text envisaged (eg, verse or prose, chanson de geste vs romance, etc) & their period (from the 12th to the 15th century). 27 References. Adapted from the source document