The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation
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This volume is suitable for scholars in philosophy of language, semantics, and pragmatics, and for graduate students in philosophy and linguistics. The book will also be useful for researchers in other fields that study quotation, including psychology and computer science.
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"The volume offers a very good depiction of current research in the diverse and active field of quotation. . anyone working on quotation will find it useful and thought-provoking." (Erik Stei, Language, Vol. 95 (2), June, 2019)More details
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Part I. Use & Mention.- Scare-Quoting and Incorporation, Mark McCullagh.- Blah, blah, blah : Quasi-Quotation and Unquotation, Paul Saka.- Use-Mention Confusions in "Sloppy, Colloquial Speech", Marga Reimer.- A Bridge from the Use-Mention Distinction to Natural Language Processing, Shomir Wilson.- Part II. Quotation Unified.- Unity in the Variety of Quotation, Kirk Ludwig & Greg Ray.- Semantics vs. Pragmatics in Impure Quotation, Mario Gómez-Torrente.- Reference and Reference-Fixing in Pure Quotation, Manuel García-Carpintero.- Quotation in Dialogue, Eleni Gregoromichelaki.- Part III. New Directions.- The Pragmatics of Attraction: Explaining Unquotation in Direct and Free Indirect Discourse, Emar Maier.- Quotation through History: A Historical Case for the Proper Treatment of Quotation, Michael Johnson.- Ideo- and Auto-Reflexive Quotation, Wayne A. Davis.- Referential Analysis of Quotation, Dale Jacquette.- Monsters and I : The Case of Mixed Quotation, KasiaM. Jaszczolt and Minyao Huang