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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3-4 / 2002  
         
  Article:   ON THE COHESION OF FREE INDIRECT DISCOPURSE.

Authors:  ŞTEFAN OLTEAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   This article proposes an analysis of the discourse means that sustain the cohesion of free indirect discourse (FID), a point-of-view narrative style, used especially in literary prose for the representation of verbal events, and of verbal or non-verbal mental events (see Oltean 1993). Various approaches have proposed accounts of FID on the basis of intrasentential, syntactic features that signal the "emergence" of another perspective, different from the narrator’s, without addressing the issue of those aspects that sustain sentence connectedness within FID passages, or the intersentential means whereby this discourse mode hangs together as a distinct text unit (but see Ehrlich 1990). In what follows, I turn to this issue, offering first a brief characterization of FID, and then a presentation of some major accounts of it in the literature (see also McHale 1978; and Oltean 1993; Flundernik 1993). The data base for the article consists of excerpts from literary texts by Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway), D. H. Lawrence (The Rainbow), James Joyce (Eveline), and Doris Lessing (To Room Nineteen).  
         
     
         
         
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