free indirect discourse
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1993, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 4, Banfield, like most free indirect discourse studies in English, is blithely unaware of the findings presented by nearly a century of German criticism."
- "2000, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text, Cheryl A. Wall (editor, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Oxford University Press, page 103, I use the word double here intentionally, to echo W. E. B. Du Bois's metaphor for the Afro-American's peculiar psychology of citizenship and also to avoid the limited description of free indirect discourse as a "dual voice," in Roy Pascal's term. Rather than a dual voice, free indirect discourse, as manifested in Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a dramatic way of expressing a divided self."
- "Free indirect discourse, then, can be seen to be the novelistic technique that enables the development of sympathy as a formal strategy."