Pure Quotation

Maier, Emar

doi:10.1111/phc3.12149

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“…The quote from Dummett is important for yet another reason. In his seminal paper Tarski (1933Tarski ( /1983 proposes a number of other approaches to quotation, many of which have been developed in the literature (see Cappelen & Lepore 2007;Saka 2013;Maier 2014 for some relevant surveys). Nevertheless, as pointed out by Dummett, it is the functional approach, according to which the metalanguage is derived from the object language, which is crucial for Tarskian semantics.…”

Section: The Emergence Of the Metalanguage: Reactivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tajtelbaum's idea, developed as the identity theory of quotation, is not the only way for circumventing 5 the unwanted effects discussed in Section 2. Perhaps Davidson's (1979) demonstrative theory is the most established one in the current literature (see Reimer 1996;Predelli 2008;Maier 2014 for some relevant comments). Still, the theory has hardly been discussed from the point of view of Tarski's semantics in the context of the abovementioned comments provided by Dummett (1991) and Simchen (2003).…”

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Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?

Wiślicki¹

2020

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The paper discusses Tarski's approach to quotation. It starts from showing that it is vulnerable to semantic inconsistencies connected with what is known as Reach's puzzle, formulated in 1938 by a Czech logician Karel Reach. This fact gives rise to serious problems concerning the relation between the metalanguage and an object language. Moreover, the paper touches upon a historic aspect, pointing out that the problem at hand is discussed in the only paper signed up as Al. Tajtelbaum, i.e. Alfred Tarski's original name. It argues that the puzzle reveals the importance of reopening the discussion on the understanding and limitations of deriving the metalanguage from an object language.

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Section: The Emergence Of the Metalanguage: Reactivationmentioning

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Section: Conclusion and Future Prospectsmentioning

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Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?

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2020

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“…Quotations that denote linguistic objects and display the shape of an expression have been characterized as pure quotation in the literature, see, among others, Maier (2014). In pure quotation, no specific utterance or speech event is designated, which Cappelen and Lepore (2007) claim to be a main difference between pure quotation, on the one hand, and direct, mixed, as well as indirect quotation, on the other.…”

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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“…(i) whether the report can be non-verbatim, (ii) whether indexicals must shift, (iii) whether DPs within the report can be construed 'de re'. Furthermore, quotation itself is not a homogeneous phenomenon (Capellen & Lepore 1997Maier 2014Maier , 2015. Investigating those issues will advance a better understanding of quotative particles and quotative evidentials, and the potential connection between the two.…”

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Evidentials and (relayed) speech acts: hearsay as quotation

Korotkova

2017

SALT

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This paper is devoted to what I will call quotative uses of hearsay evidentials, wherein they report a speech act made by a third party. Occasionally mentioned in the typological literature, quotative uses were first given a formal semantic account by Faller 2002 and have received little attention since. The goal of this paper is to put the spotlight on them. An ongoing debate in the literature is on the semantic status of evidentials and the place of evidentiality among other categories (see Matthewson 2012 and references therein). For Faller (2002, 2007), quotative uses are among the empirical tests that diagnose illocutionary evidentials, ones that deal with the structure of speech acts. In this paper, I re-implement Faller's original proposal within Krifka's (2014) framework that provides an explicit syntax-pragmatics interface. I then show that quotative readings may be the only argument, out of the currently provided in the literature, in favor of the existence of illocutionary evidentials. However, the status of such readings requires further research. I conclude by discussing quotative uses within a broader context of reported speech strategies.

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Pure Quotation

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?

Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?

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

Evidentials and (relayed) speech acts: hearsay as quotation

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