Quotations as Pictures

Josef Stern

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MIT Press
15 February 2022

linguistics

The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures.

The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of 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 analyzes scare quotation as a nonliteral expressive use of the inverted commas and explores the possibility of quotation in pictures themselves.

By: Josef Stern
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262543132
ISBN 10: 0262543133
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 15 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas I: Quoting 5 2 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas II: Mentioning 21 3 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas III: Mixed (or Subsentential) Quotation 39 4 Three Themes from Pictures 49 5 Quotations as Pictures I: Representational Content 63 6 Quotations as Pictures II: Exemplificational Content 77 7 Other Explananda for a Theory of Quotation 93 8 What Do the Inverted Commas Do? 109 9 Scare Quotes and the Nonliteral Use of the Inverted Commas 131 10 Quotations in Pictures 143 Notes 175 References 213 Index 227

Josef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Chicago and was the Inaugural Director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Metaphor in Context (MIT Press), The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide, and other books.

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