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indirect discourse

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Noun1.indirect discourse - 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'")
report, account - the act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple"
direct discourse, direct quotation - a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'")


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Unlike the scene of Bundy's beating, in which the free indirect discourse moves the reader back and forth dialogically between Marse Prosser and the slaves, in this interior monologue of the funeral, the reader is separated from Marse Prosser, who becomes the distanced "other" with a dangerously limited knowledge.
Black Thunder's call for a conjure response to American Negro Slavery by Lane, Suzanne / African American Review
They should be able to relate this to the dialogic nature of Free Indirect Discourse and see how the alignment of both the narrator's and the character's voices evidently accounts for all the skillful devices employed by the former to arouse tenderness towards the latter and hatred towards Miriam, the woman who questions the former's way of life and value system.
Teaching K. A. Porter's "That Tree" by Monton, Elena Ortells / Academic Exchange Quarterly
The prevalence of free indirect discourse in such moments of crisis indicates the carefully guarded interiorized space that the narrator invades.
"Oral Tutelage" and the Figure of Literacy: Paule Marshall's Brown ... by Basu, Biman / MELUS
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