Scare Quotes and Their Relation to Other Semantic Issues  

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Predelli, Stefano

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 26 no. 1 (Feb. 2003), page 1-28.
Fulltext: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-28.pdf (3.39MB)

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The main aim of this paper is that of providing a unified analysis for some interesting uses of quotation marks, including so-called scare quotes. The phenomena ex emplified by the cases I discuss have remained relatively unexplored, notwithstanding a growing interest in the behavior of quotation marks. They are, however, of no lesser interest than other, more widely studied effects achieved with the help of quotation marks.1 In par ticular, as I argue in what follows, scare quotes and other similar instances bear interesting relations with some important themes in the study of natural languages, such as questions regarding alleged devices of conventional implicature, cases of so-called metalinguistic negation, and, more generally, problems pertaining to the distinction between semantic and pragmatic fields of inquiry. In Section 1, I begin with a description of some examples involving the uses of quota tion marks I intend to discuss, and I hint at some desiderata for their analysis. In Section 2, I temporarily abandon quotation marks, and, inspired by the recent work of Stephen Neale and Kent Bach on alleged devices of conventional implicature, I present what I call the theory of message and attachment. In Sections 3 and 4, I return to my initial examples, I employ the theory of message and attachment in their analysis, and I discuss certain features regarding the behavior of negation in some related cases.

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