Quotation marks: demonstratives or demonstrations?

Reimer, Marga

doi:10.1093/analys/56.3.131

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“…An important divide among theories of quotation faces on the one hand those who advance a theory of quotation without quotation marks (for short QWQ)-e.g., Recanati (2001), Reimer (1996), Saka (1998) and Washington (1992)-, and on the other hand those who believe that a theory of quotation can be limited without any loss to the cases in which quotation marks are explicit (QQ henceforth)-e.g., Cappelen and Lepore (2007) and Gómez-Torrente (2013).…”

Section: Quotations Without Quotation Marksmentioning

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Pure quotation, metalanguage and metasemantics

Bazzoni

2016

Linguist and Philos

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Every theory of pure quotation embraces in some form or another the intuitively obvious thesis that pure quotations refer to their quoted expressions. However, they all remain vague (and sometimes even inconsistent) about the nature of these latter. This paper proposes to take seriously the fact that quoted items are semantic, not syntactic objects, and to develop therefrom a semantics for pure quotation that retains the basic intuitions and at the same time circumvents standard problems.

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Section: Quotations Without Quotation Marksmentioning

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Pure quotation, metalanguage and metasemantics

Bazzoni

2016

Linguist and Philos

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“…A simple identity theory can seemingly be found in the works of Frege, Washington, Reimer, and Gutzmann and Stei. This body of literature suggests that words refer to themselves and that quotation marks possess no semantic value whatsoever (they do not denote and they do not express functions that map from one denotation to another).…”

Section: How Does Quotation Work?mentioning

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Quotation

Saka¹

2013

Philosophy Compass

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Understanding quotation is fundamental to understanding the nature of truth and meaning. Quotation, however, is a remarkably complicated phenomenon, and a vigorous literature on the topic has been growing at an increasing rate.§1 To give you a sense of this work, §1 enlarges upon the significance of studying quotation; §2 presents a rudimentary taxonomy of quotation; and §3 critically surveys theories of how quotation works.

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“…1 will not rehearse the reasons here. Let me just briefly mention what 1 take to be the maín problem for a version ofIT, proposed by Reimer (1996), which adopts some aspects of DO. Reimer ' s view shares with orthodox versions of IT the claim that the quoted material is the linguistic referring ex~ression .…”

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Double-Duty Quotation

García‐Carpintero

2003

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This paper starts by outlining relevant aspects of a view of how indexicals in general and demonstratives in particular work, after which it presents a version of Davidson's (1979) Demonstrative Theory of quotation tha! J have argued for in previous work.On this form of the demonstrative view, the quoted material plays a role analogous to the demonstrated item in cases of "deferred ostension" uses of ordinary demonstratives. The paper then examines the phenomenon that Recanati calls open quotation, here called instead double-duty quotation, and argues that the version of the Demonstrative Theory previously sketched is consistent with the existence of doubleduty quotation, and to that extent is confirmed by it even though the theory was elaborated without regard for double-duty quotation.

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Quotation marks: demonstratives or demonstrations?

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