34.152, Books: Quotations As Pictures: Stern

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:35:10
From: Judith Bullent [jbullent at mit.edu]
Subject: Quotations As Pictures: Stern

 


Title: Quotations As Pictures 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543132/quotations-as-pictures/ 


Author: Josef Stern

Paperback: ISBN:  9780262543132 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ $50


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=167133




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