direct speech
noun [ U ]
language
specialized us
/ˌdaɪ.rekt ˈspiːtʃ/ uk
/ˌdaɪ.rekt ˈspiːtʃ/ (US also direct discourse)Meaning of direct speech in English
(Definition of direct speech from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of direct speech
direct speech
First, he put all the book's events in chronological order, then transcribed all the direct speech.
From Huffington Post
Echoing is active at all the descriptive levels to demonstrate various communicative situations and pragmatic effects, including (in)direct speech reports, irony and paraphrases.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The child creates a conversation using direct speech for the toy characters.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Our hypothesis then is that the pragmatic context in which a direct speech report is used influences its processing costs.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
More specifically, children seemed to systematically interpret pronouns in direct speech as in indirect speech.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Thus, (3) contains a piece of direct speech that leads to an undisputed code-switch.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
There, it occurs in the context of reported or direct speech attributable mainly to named individuals or organizations.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
On the other hand, experimental results indicate that children find it very difficult to interpret simple direct speech reports.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Much of the presentation is dramatic, with their direct speech making up approximately 564 sentences (5681 words).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
As a grammatical relation, the direct speech can function as a subordinate clause, for example in (3).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In the current study, even four- to five-year-olds were above chance in direct speech interpretation, i.e.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This is what led children, and some adults, to incorrectly interpret pronouns in direct speech relative to the more salient reporting speaker's perspective.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Like direct speech, it relates information from a source, but in a summary form, designed to convey the essence of a larger discourse.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This discussion will define a quotative as a verbal introducer of direct speech, oral or silent, or a nonspeech sound produced by the vocal apparatus.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Direct speech can span over more than one sentence.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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Translations of direct speech
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discours direct…
dolaysız anlatım…
directe rede…
přímá řeč (jaz.)…
direkte tale…
tuturan langsung…
ถ้อยคำที่มีความหมายตรงตามรูปของภาษา…
câu chủ động…
mowa niezależna…
direkt tal…
cakap ajuk…
die direkte Rede…
direkte tale…
пряма мова…
