Direct speech, dependent speech and combined speech are forms of reported speech that appear in journalistic and literary texts. In direct speech, there is real direct speech, non-real direct speech, ellipsis direct speech and syntactically included direct speech. Dependent speech is divided into true dependent speech and dependent speech with an unexpressed accompanying clause. There are also forms of combined reported speech, namely double dependent speech, and double direct speech, where familiar forms are simply repeated. Similarly, in the case of combinations of direct and dependent speech. We also have the included combined speech, where one form of reported speech appears in a literal quotation (in the case of direct speech) or in a dependent clause (in the case of dependent speech). There is also the combination of three and the combination of four units of reported speech. In journalistic texts, direct speech predominates (54 %), followed by dependent speech (39 %), and combined speech is the least frequent (7 %), as is the case in literary texts, where direct speech is the most frequent (93 %), with a smaller proportion of dependent speech (5,5 %) and combined speech (1,5 %). The forms of reported speech in journalistic texts are more varied, while reported speech in literary texts is mainly in the form of true direct speech with an accompanying sentence at the end and true direct speech without an accompanying sentence.
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