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This paper aims to determine the modes of wording indirect
reporting of authentic direct utterances by Russian learners of English. We claim
that since the process of transferring someone else’s speech involves implication
and inferences of the speaker and the hearer correspondingly, when conveying
the meaning of the speaker’s authentic message in the form of indirect speech
the personal context of the utterance plays a vital role. The experiment to check
the hypothesis that direct speech requires not only grammatical and lexical
transformations but also a complex pragmatic enrichment was organized. The
reporting verbs used by the participants of the experiment to convey the
speaker’s intention and the presentation of the speaker’s identity were analyzed.
The study proved that when conveying the speaker’s authentic speech meaning
in the form of indirect speech the listeners need to shift from the reporting
speaker’s perspective to the reported speaker’s perspective to comply with an
actual communicative meaning of the utterance. Thus, a foreign language
context of communication imposes additional linguistic, extra linguistic, and
pragmatic difficulties on the process of English language learners’ interpreting
of the utterance which is cognitively demanding and needs to be persistently
developed.