The Notion of Free Indirect Discourse and its Use in Contemporary Journalism

Humanities and Social Sciences Review. No1 Vol. 02. Pp. 365–371 (2012) ISSN: 2165-6258 Free Indirect Discourse (FID) is traditionally considered a device limited to literary texts. This article argues that FID was widely used in journalist writing throughout the XXth century and is still popular today. The analysis focuses on the formal features as well as stylistic functions of FID in the English language journalism and outlines the major differences between the traditional «literary» FID and its «non-fiction» variety. Keywords: Free indirect discourse, Speech representation, Stylistics, Discourse analysis.