Abstract: International audience; First of all we would like to thank all the commentators for their valuable contributions. They provide additional evidence for our analysis, but they also challenge aspects of it in interesting ways. Unfortunately, space prevents us from addressing most of the points raised here. As Hodge and Cormier demonstrate, discussions about reported speech quickly touch upon fundamental questions about the role of convention in linguistic description and the contribution of multimodality. Dancygier highlights the importance of fi...
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