Exploring the Meaning of Quotation

Brendel, Elke; Meibauer, Jörg; Steinbach, Markus

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“…In the literature on quotation, five main types are commonly distinguished (see 3; for overviews, see, e.g., Brendel, Meibauer, & Steinbach, 2011a, b; Cappelen & Lepore, 2012; Saka & Johnson, 2017): (3) a. “Hanover” has three syllables.…”

Section: Semantics and Pragmatics Of Quotationmentioning

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Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts

Schlechtweg

Härtl

2019

Lang Speech

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Quotation marks are a tool to refer to the linguistic form of an expression. For instance, in cases of so-called pure quotation as in “Hanover” has three syllables, they point to the syllabic characteristics of the name of the town of Hanover. Cases of this nature differ from sentences like Hanover is a town in New Hampshire, in which Hanover is used denotationally and, thus, refers to the town of Hanover itself. Apart from quotation marks, other means such as italics, bold, capitalization, or air quotes represent potential means to signal a non-stereotypical use of an item in the written or gestural mode. It is far less clear, however, whether acoustic correlates of quotation marks exist. The present contribution aims at investigating this issue by focusing on instances of quotation, in which the conventionalized name of a lexical concept is highlighted by means of quotation marks, either together with or without an additional lexical quotational marker, such as so-called, on the lexical level (cf. The so-called “vuvuzela” is an instrument from South Africa vs. The “vuvuzela” is an instrument from South Africa). The data clearly show that quotation marks are pronounced, primarily triggering a lengthening effect, independently of whether they appear together with or without a name-informing context. The results of the experiments are interpreted against the background of a pragmatic implementation of quotation marks in general as well as in spoken discourse in particular.

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Section: Semantics and Pragmatics Of Quotationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts

Schlechtweg

Härtl

2019

Lang Speech

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“…Various views on quotation as a device for talking about language have been formulated from a language-philosophical perspective, see, among others, Brendel et al (2011a) and Cappelen and Lepore (2012) for overviews. An influential, though debated, 23 theory of quotation is Davidson's Demonstrative Theory (Davidson 1979).…”

Section: Quotation In Name-mentioning Contextsmentioning

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Name-informing and distancing sogenannt ‘so-called’: Name mentioning and the lexicon-pragmatics interface

Härtl

2018

Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft

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This paper aims at a unified analysis of the different interpretations which constructions involving the German name-mentioning modifier sogenannt ‘so-called’ can adopt. In contrast to nouns like Sepsis ‘sepsis’, a noun like Hotel ‘hotel’, as in sogenanntes Hotel, gives rise to a “distanced” interpretation of the construction rather than one informing about a concept’s name. After a thorough investigation of the lexical-semantic properties, we propose the reading of the construction to emerge from an interplay between lexical factors like the head nominal’s conventionalization, on the one hand, and pragmatic implicatures rooted in relevance- as well as manner-based principles, on the other. From a compositional perspective, the so in sogenannt will be reasoned to be identical in function to quotation marks as a means to refer to a linguistic shape through demonstration. The different interpretations of the construction will be coupled with the type of binding of the agent-argument variable as well as the event variable of the verbal root nenn- ‘call’ of sogenannt.

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“…This is also known as the verbatim assumption (cf. Brendel et al 2011; for a critical discussion Clark & Gerrig 1990). While direct quotation often is regarded as optimally verbatim, indirect quotation is regarded as more tolerant towards deviances from the original wording.…”

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Bla, bla, bla in German. A pejorative construction?

Finkbeiner

2016

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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The paper provides a pragmatic analysis of utterances containing the syllable triple bla, bla, bla in German. In uttering bla, bla, bla, speakers may convey a derogatory stance towards someone else's utterance. The question is addressed how this pejorative meaning aspect should be modeled in terms of the semantics/pragmatics divide: Is it contextually induced (inferential), or is it conventional (encoded)? Two main usage types are distinguished: sequentially non-restricted usages, and turn-initial reply usages. On the basis of a close analysis of the characteristic features of bla, bla, bla, it is claimed that the pejorative meaning aspect is to be described differently for the two main usages: While in sequentially non-restricted usages, the pejoration is a contextually induced implicature, in the turn-initial reply usage, it is a conventional aspect of this specific construction.

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Exploring the Meaning of Quotation

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts

Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts

Name-informing and distancing sogenannt ‘so-called’: Name mentioning and the lexicon-pragmatics interface

Bla, bla, bla in German. A pejorative construction?

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