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 Topic 9 (session A) - Speech Presentation > Thought presentation > Task A
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Thought presentation

Task A - Our comments for Cartoon 1

Stef with a thought bubble 'I'm coming down with a bloody cold'We have presented Stef's thoughts to you here in the Direct Thought (DT) form. You apparently witness her thoughts directly, as she thinks them, and they have the deictic and lexical properties appropriate to her immediate 'thinking context'.

The effect here is rather like you get in dramatic soliloquies when a character is thinking on stage. The direct features suggest that you have direct access to the thinking process. In this sense, the effects are rather like those for DS. But Direct Thought (DT) also has the effect of making the thoughts involved seem rather deliberate and consciously formed. It seems like conscious, rather than subconscious, thought. This is presumably because it is only when we indulge in deliberate, conscious thought that we think in 'fully formed sentences'.

 

 

 

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