The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation

✍ Scribed by Paul Saka, Michael Johnson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 15
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that for a language to be learnable, speakers must be able to derive the truth-conditions of sentences from the meanings of their parts. Another popular view is that indexical expressions like "I" display a certain fixity -- that they always refer to the speaker using them. Both of these tenets appear to be violated by quotation.
This volume is suitable for scholars in philosophy of language, semantics, and pragmatics, and for graduate students in philosophy and linguistics. The book will also be useful for researchers in other fields that study quotation, including psychology and computer science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Scare-Quoting and Incorporation (Mark McCullagh)....Pages 3-34
Blah, blah, blah: Quasi-quotation and Unquotation (Paul Saka)....Pages 35-63
Use-Mention Confusions in “Sloppy, Colloquial Speech” (Marga Reimer)....Pages 65-78
A Bridge from the Use-Mention Distinction to Natural Language Processing (Shomir Wilson)....Pages 79-96
Front Matter ....Pages 97-97
Unity in the Variety of Quotation (Kirk Ludwig, Greg Ray)....Pages 99-134
Semantics vs. Pragmatics in Impure Quotation (Mario Gómez-Torrente)....Pages 135-167
Reference and Reference-Fixing in Pure Quotation (Manuel García-Carpintero)....Pages 169-194
Quotation in Dialogue (Eleni Gregoromichelaki)....Pages 195-255
Front Matter ....Pages 257-257
The Pragmatics of Attraction (Emar Maier)....Pages 259-280
Quotation Through History: A Historical Case for the Proper Treatment of Quotation (Michael Johnson)....Pages 281-302
Ideo- and Auto-reflexive Quotation (Wayne A. Davis)....Pages 303-333
Referential Analysis of Quotation (Dale Jacquette)....Pages 335-355
Monsters and I: The Case of Mixed Quotation (Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Minyao Huang)....Pages 357-382

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Language