indirect discourse

1. 1.

   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")

   Antonymsdirect discourse

   Broaderreport

Questions about indirect discourse

What does indirect discourse mean?

indirect discourse means "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")".

What is the opposite of indirect discourse?

The recorded antonyms are direct discourse.

Is indirect discourse a common word?

indirect discourse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.