Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

<p>In the past decades quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines—quotation types meaning effects and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally relevant to the quotational sentence and if there is a truth-conditional impact whether it is generated via semantic or pragmatic processes have become the central concerns of quotation studies.</p><p></p><p>In this book quotation is clearly defined for the first time as a constituent embedded within yet distinctive from the quotational sentence. Also as the first monograph to address the semantics/pragmatics boundary dispute over quotation it argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive truth-conditional content of the quotational utterance via two modes of presentation which are incarnated in the functioning of quotation marks and manifested as use and mention. The use/mention-based analysis in this book can shed light on the semantic theorizing of other metalinguistic phenomena while the semantics/pragmatics perspective will provide methodological implications for other relevant studies.</p><p></p><p>The new conception of quotation and thought-provoking analysis on use/mention truth-conditional pragmatics and the semantics/pragmatics boundary in this book will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy of language and linguistics. It will also serve as a clear guide to the current state of quotation studies and how to formulate a semantic theory of quotation.</p>