несобственно-прямая речь

The results of word order analysis in the author’s speech of B. Akunin are represented in the article. A special notice is given to informal spoken structures, permeating the author’s speech with a variety of purposes.

The article discusses the interaction of rhythm and narrative strategy. Free indirect speech is a complex phenomenon, sometimes devoid of bright markers of the transition to the character’s inner mental space. Metric changes, change of breath expressed in the rhythm, are considered as one of the ways of ‘switching’ from the author’s speech to the character’s internal speech.