QUOTATIVE FRAME OF DIRECT SPEECH IN NGUYEN HUY THIEP'S SHORT STORIES
Abstract
Quotative frame of direct speech in Nguyen Huy Thiep's short stories has certain characteristics in position as well as syntactic and semantic structure. Firstly, about the position of quotative frame: it has not only three positions: before, in and after the direct speech but also a special one: it is located both before and inside the direct speech. Secondly, the quotative frame is mainly a simple sentence with two components, subject and verb. In a quotative frame, Nguyen Huy Thiep used words in a minimum way. Just sentences like: He says, Mr Mong says, the woman replies etc. The quotative frame rarely has additional factors to comment or describe. Nguyen Huy Thiep seems to give up that "judgement right" to readers. It is the thing that makes Nguyen Huy Thiep different and attractive in aspects of the word.