The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness.

Description: Offers a theoretical model for representing language--both oral and literary--and analyzes various modes of discourse such as direct discourse, free indirect discourse, dual voicing, etc. Observes at one point (p. 369) that "Chaucer's free indirect discourse has been . . . stubbornly ignored and . . . persistently dismissed as quite the real thing after all" (p. 369), referring to evidence cited earlier in sections 2.2 and 3.4.3, the latter analyzing a number of quotations from Chaucer to exemplify the "uncertainty of tense usage" in Middle English.