In conversational Chinese, when he / she directly quotes others ' words or words of himself / herself in another context, the speaker reuses the introducing elements 'I /( s) he / you+say( 我 / 他 / 你 +说) ' preceding the direct quotations. The phenomenon is termed in this article as'repetition of quotation-introducing elements'. Its major function is to set boundaries between the direct quotation and the speech of the current speaker and to label the identity of direct quotations. It is also a significant feature of spoken Chinese which is hi...
