دانلود کتاب Understanding quotation

Studies on the nature of quotation have become a topic of growing interest among linguists and philosophers of language. What is the function and logical status of quotations? How can an analysis of quotation help to develop a general theory of the semantics-pragmatics interface? This volume is a collection of original papers by leading researchers in the field on such issues and related linguistic and philosophical aspects of quotations. Read more... Content: Preface; Contributors tothisvolume; Exploring the Meaning of Quotation; Attitudes Toward Quotation; Truth Value Talk Without Quotation; Disquotational Indirect Reports in Focus; Behabitive Reports; Double-duty Quotation, Conventional Implicatures and What Is Said; What Quotations Refer To; Quotation Marks and Kinds of Meaning. Arguments in Favor of a Pragmatic Account; Quotation and Pictoriality; The Punctuation Theory of Quotation; Misrepresenting Misrepresentation; Two Dogmas on Quotation; Reporting and Quoting in Signed Discourse; The Act of Quotation Abstract: What is the function and logical status of quotations? And how can an analysis of quotation help to develop a general theory of the semantics-pragmatics interface? This is a collection of original papers by researchers in the field on such issues and related linguistic and philosophical aspects of quotations. Read more...