ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we turn to an area of Mangghuer discourse which is of great importance in the database on which I have primarily based this study: reported speech. The reporting of words and thoughts of characters is an extremely significant device in the Mangghuer folktales. Of 1,475 total lines of text (in 15 folktale narratives) 787 lines, or 53 percent, involve some form of reported speech.
