More than Relata Refero: Representing the Various Roles of Reported Speech in Argumentative Discourse

Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can be an important element argumentative discourse. It might, for instance, provide information on position another party in discussion function as premise argument from authority. Whereas existing methods representing discourse focus arguments and their interrelations, this paper develops a method that enables analyst to also include informative elements representation, focusing reported speech. does so by incorporating notion ‘voice’ into representation framework Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg). In particular, explains how formalize constituents illustrates its use (1) author’s report (including supporting argumentation); (2) own (3) source-based such authority, with indication distance source author.