On the bivocal nature of free indirect discourse

The issue of dual voice or perspective, central to a conceptualization of FID, is highly controversial in the literature. An explicit formulation of what is involved semantically might clarify the grounds of dispute. While Doron (1991) has addressed the question from within situational semantics, the present article furnishes evidence of the dual voice associated with FID from the point of view of model-theoretic semantics and possible world semantics.