Understanding Mixed Quotation

McCullagh, Mark

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“…Quotation marks seem to facilitate processing to a critical extent not only in pure but also in other types of quotation; for example, in mixed quotation and the interpretation of indexicals therein (see Cappelen & Lepore, 2012; Cumming, 2003; McCullagh, 2007 for discussion). Consider the following examples: (11) a. Zach said that we would win the game in our stadium.…”

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

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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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“…That exchange concerns mixed quotation, but Geurts's and Maier's reasoning applies also to mixed belief ascription. (I have proposed an account of the logical form of mixed quotation in McCullagh (2007). ) increases plausibility, but correspondingly weakens the conclusion we can draw from them.…”

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Russellianism unencumbered

McCullagh

2016

Philos Stud

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Richard Heck, Jr. has recently (in ''Intuition and the substitution argument,'' Analytical Philosophy 2014) reconfigured the debate over Russellianism about proper names. Sidestepping the usual argument, which concerns ''intuitions'' about substitutions within ''that''-clauses, he proposes a new argument based on the claims that (i) beliefs are individuated by their psychological roles and (ii) ordinary language has belief-specifying locutions that reflect that individuation. Focusing on (ii) I argue that contrary to what Heck claims, ''that''-clause ascriptions are not the only candidates. In fact there are much better candidates: ascriptions involving direct quotations. I explain how the proposal is novel (it avoids the usual problems with such ascriptions) and how it answers the requirements of Heck's argument.More broadly what Heck's argument brings out is the diversity of resources ordinary language has for specifying beliefs; a defense of Russellianism needn't rest entirely on claims about ''that''-clause ascriptions.

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“…Cappelen and Lepore (“Varieties) extend the Davidsonian approach to mixed discourse reports. Additional developments appear in works by Partee, Banfield, Goldstein, Garcia‐Carpintero, Caplan, Benbaji, Washington and Biro, McCullagh, Predelli (“Demonstrative), and R. Sorensen.…”

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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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Understanding Mixed Quotation

Cited by 9 publications

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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

Russellianism unencumbered

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