Elisabeth Reber is a senior lecturer, University of Würzburg, and currently a replacement professor in English Linguistics, University of Heidelberg. Her work focuses on Interactional (Socio-)Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and Multimodality. She has published the monograph Affectivity in Interaction (2012), numerous co-edited volumes, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

'What I personally find a particularly noteworthy asset in this extensive and diligent work is Reber's intricate focus on prosodical and suprasegmental aspects and layers that accompany, complement and specify the meanings and functions of the quotations analyzed.' Monika Kirner-Ludwig, Journal of Pragmatics

• 1. Introduction; 2. Reported speech and evidentiality; 3. Prime Minister's questions; 4. Data, transcription and methodology; 5. Reporting clauses; 6. Reported clauses; 7. Reported speech and rhetorical structures; 8. Reported speech in recurrent courses of action; 9. Summary and conclusions; Appendix A; Appendix B.

Elisabeth Reber is a senior lecturer, University of Würzburg, and currently a replacement professor in English Linguistics, University of Heidelberg. Her work focuses on Interactional (Socio-)Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and Multimodality. She has published the monograph Affectivity in Interaction (2012), numerous co-edited volumes, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

'What I personally find a particularly noteworthy asset in this extensive and diligent work is Reber's intricate focus on prosodical and suprasegmental aspects and layers that accompany, complement and specify the meanings and functions of the quotations analyzed.' Monika Kirner-Ludwig, Journal of Pragmatics

• 1. Introduction; 2. Reported speech and evidentiality; 3. Prime Minister's questions; 4. Data, transcription and methodology; 5. Reporting clauses; 6. Reported clauses; 7. Reported speech and rhetorical structures; 8. Reported speech in recurrent courses of action; 9. Summary and conclusions; Appendix A; Appendix B.

Elisabeth Reber is a senior lecturer, University of Würzburg, and currently a replacement professor in English Linguistics, University of Heidelberg. Her work focuses on Interactional (Socio-)Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and Multimodality. She has published the monograph Affectivity in Interaction (2012), numerous co-edited volumes, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

'What I personally find a particularly noteworthy asset in this extensive and diligent work is Reber's intricate focus on prosodical and suprasegmental aspects and layers that accompany, complement and specify the meanings and functions of the quotations analyzed.' Monika Kirner-Ludwig, Journal of Pragmatics

• 1. Introduction; 2. Reported speech and evidentiality; 3. Prime Minister's questions; 4. Data, transcription and methodology; 5. Reporting clauses; 6. Reported clauses; 7. Reported speech and rhetorical structures; 8. Reported speech in recurrent courses of action; 9. Summary and conclusions; Appendix A; Appendix B.