The purpose of this paper is to attempt a pragmatic approach to the explanation of the narration in terms of the reproduction, description, and performance by proxy of the original speaker`s speech acts. In direct speeches, the reporter reproduces original speaker`s utterance acts or illocutionary acts by repeating and imitating the utterance produced by the original speaker, and he describes the original speaker`s utterance acts or illocutionary acts he reproduced in the reporting clause. In indirect speech, the reporter integrates the propositional meaning or implicated propositional meaning of the utterances into the description of the original speaker`s illocutionary acts. On the other hand, the narrator`s performance by proxy of the character`s speech acts and the narrator`s description of the propositional meaning of character`s utterances intermingle in free indirect speech, which enables the narrator not only to penetrate into the character`s mind and freely express character`s attitudinal expressions but also to describe the propositional meaning of the character`s utterances according to the narrator`s point of view.