Mixed quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity
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Mixed quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity
The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the interpretation of a mixed quotation involves the resolution of a metalinguistic presupposition. The leading idea behind my proposal is that a mixed-quoted expression, say, “has an anomalous feature”, means what x referred to w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.7.7