ABSTRACT
Among the various acts and events which language may report, it has developed special linguistic forms for reporting the act of utterance itself. It is through these reflexive forms of reporting speech that language reveals its different functions. The expressive and communica tive functions can be isolated because the speaking subject and his utterance become, not merely the transparent vehicle of expression1 and communication, but the object of a self-conscious attention on the part of language turned back upon itself.
