Literature Review

The construction of projection has been discussed under different terms such as direct and indirect speech (Jespersen Essentials of English grammar, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1933), quotation (e.g., Bell The language of news media, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991), citation (Swales Appl Linguis 7:39–55, 1986), reporting (Charles Journal of English for Specific Purposes 25:310–331, 2006), speech and thought representation (Quirk et al. A comprehensive grammar of the English language, Longman, London, 1985), speech reporting (Collins, D. E. (2001). Reanimated voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.) and many others.