The construction of characters’ speech during the text production process
This article describes cases of reported speech (DR) during the production of etiological tales invented by a pair of students (seven years old). Different types of DR will be identified for a series of ten manuscripts, and the genesis of DR within a given writing process will be illustrated from initial formulation to textualization. Based on the theoretical framework of Textual Genetics and the Linguistics of Enunciation, the article examines the procedural dimension of act while writing, observing the role of each student therein. It is noted that the greater number of incidences of DR—113 spoken vs. 29 written—appears to be linked to the complexity of the graphical and enunciative forms of DR in writing, given the loss of enunciative possibilities that they represent.