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Formatting Thoughts in Fiction - CMOS Shop Talk
| . Thoughts belong to what CMOS calls unspoken (or interior) discourse. The difference between spoken...and unspoken discourse on the page is often as simple as writing “I thought” rather than “I said...13.43 says that thought, imagined dialogue, and other internal discourse may be enclosed in quotation... |
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| recommends either no treatment or quotation marks for unspoken discourse. Please see CMOS 13.43.... |
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| for styling such things as direct and indirect discourse, but the “nuts and bolts” information about... |
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| italics might have their place. Italics are common in fiction for unspoken discourse (as for a narrator’s... |
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| . We told her no. Don’t ask me why. But when such words are presented as direct discourse—as in the... |
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| example, which reads like dialogue but isn’t quite direct discourse: When she cried “That’s not fair... |
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| different voices can be distinguished. (And for more ideas, see CMOS 13.39–45, which includes discussions of unspoken and indirect discourse.)... |
Chicago Style Workout 66 Parentheses (and Brackets) - CMOS Shop Talk
| enclose unspoken discourse are not normally used 9. In quoted text, square brackets usually enclose... |
Word Guru Ben Zimmer on the transformation and technologization of language - CMOS Shop Talk
| with texting and other short-form writing. Electronic discourse has allowed innovative grammatical..., shifting boundaries of “public” and “private” discourse are creating a much larger paper trail for each... |
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| omit commas entirely from your example, which reads like dialogue but isn’t quite direct discourse ...are presented as direct discourse—as in the dialogue of a novel or story—they are usually placed in... |
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