Varieties of Quotation Revisited

Cappelen, Herman; Lepore, Ernie

doi:10.1075/bjl.17.04cap

Article published In: Hybrid Quotations
Edited by Philippe De Brabanter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 17] 2003
► pp. 51–75

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Varieties of Quotation Revisited

Herman Cappelen | University of Oslo

Ernie Lepore | Rutgers University

Published online: 5 April 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.17.04cap

This paper develops the view presented in our 1997 paper “Varieties of Quotation”. In the first part of the paper we show how phenomena such as scare quotes, echoing and mimicry can be treated as what we call Speech-Act Heuristics. We then defend a semantic account of mixed quotation. Along the way we discuss the role of indexicals in mixed quotation and the non-cancelability of reference to words in mixed quotation. We also respond to some objections raised by Recanati, Saka, Stainton and Reimer.

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