Quotations as Pictures

In Quotations as Pictures, Josef Stern develops a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures. He offers the first sustained analysis of the practice of quotation proper, as opposed to mentioning. Unlike other accounts that treat quotation as mentioning, Quotations as Pictures argues that the two practices have independent histories, that they behave differently semantically, that the inverted commas employed in both mentioning and quotation are homonymous, that so-called mixed quotation is nothing but subsentential quotation, and that the major problem of quotation is to explain its dual reference or meaning-its ordinary meaning and its metalinguistic reference to the quoted phrase attributed to the quoted subject. Stern argues that the key to understanding quotation is the idea that quotations are pictures or have a pictorial character. As a phenomenon where linguistic competence meets a nonlinguistic symbolic ability, the pictorial, quotation is a combination of features drawn from the two different symbol systems of language and pictures, which explains the exceptional and sometimes idiosyncratic data about quotation. In light of this analysis of verbal quotation, in the last chapters Stern analyses scare quotation as a nonliteral expressive use of the inverted commas and explores the possibility of quotation in pictures themselves.

ISBN:	9780262543132
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	08 Feb 2022
DEWEY:	401
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	248
Weight:	352g
Height:	153mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	19mm

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