Implicit elements indicating the subject of speech or thought in free indirect speech (Italian narrative of XIX—XXI centuries is considered as example)

Abstract

The article focuses on circumstances in which free indirect speech appears in the selected Italian texts when there is no explicit indication of it, i.e. when introductive speech or mental predicates help the reader to identify the boundary between narrator’s and personage’s voices.

Keywords

• несобственно-прямая речь
• предикаты-интродукторы
• семантика
• синтаксис
• нарратор
• субъект высказывания