Abstract
In this paper I survey various pragmatic matters involving indirect discourse in artificial languages such as Esperanto: the way in which it is marked, how it is distinguished from similar structures, what happens to deictic items in it, and the choice between it and direct discourse. Ideally this will indicate that research into the pragmatics of artificial languages is of theoretical interest, and will show similarities and differences between artificial and natural languages: from a pragmatic point of view artificial languages do not seem very different from natural languages.
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