Tom Güldemann's book "Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives" should have something on this. https://books.google.com/books?id=hi-0qRYc4BgC&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=Tom+G%C3%BCldemann+reported+ypeech&source=bl&ots=WauU6zI5hr&sig=RILfazTprmm0toKvtPELnwHphMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj07Ln5oN7JAhWCKGMKHY8BDsEQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=Tom%20G%C3%BCldemann%20reported%20ypeech&f=false
My papers on sign and language and on language and consicousness should be of interest, relative to your question. After you read them on my Research Gate site, I will be pleased to answer your question in more details. jacinthe Baribeau
I am writing a film script in Persian which includes showing and some telling.
I have been trying to show most of the events. Nevertheless, I can't help telling here and there. I suggest you should try analyzing a film script in English or any language you'd like for examples you are looking for.
I have written about syntac and indirect speech and thought here:
(2014) 'Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative', in Chapman, S. and Clark, B. (eds.) Pragmatic Literary Stylistics. Palgrave.
And also here, though only briefly:
(2012) 'How Literature Communicates: a Cognitive Pragmatic Perspective', in Daiber, J., Konrad, E-M., Petraschka, T. and Rott, H. eds Understanding Fiction: Knowledge and Meaning in Literature. Münster: Mentis.
I apprecite the reference of Barbara MacMahon. Being a neuroscientist and a writer of fiction and novels, I also agree that at a higher level of semantic representation, there is a mimesis between high level semantics and motivational action constructs. But the foundations of this network of semiotics needs to be acknowledged. It appears to be taking its source in the reltaion between ''inner speech' and thought ( A classic from E.N. Sokolov, and in the neuropsychology of A.N. Luria). Best regards, Dr. J. Baribeau. ( see my paper: On the origins of language and consciousness, in my list of publications)