Usually means: Representation of speech in text.
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  1. indirect discourse: Collins English Dictionary
  2. indirect discourse: Vocabulary.com
  3. indirect discourse: Wordnik
  4. indirect discourse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. indirect discourse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. indirect discourse: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. indirect discourse: Dictionary.com
  8. Indirect discourse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. indirect discourse: Rhymezone
  10. indirect discourse: FreeDictionary.org
  11. indirect discourse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. indirect discourse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. indirect discourse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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noun:  a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'")


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