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> <p><strong>List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 Quotation and Use/Mention Chapter 2 Classic Theories of Quotation Chapter 3 Quotation and the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary Dispute Chapter 4 Truth-Conditional Pragmatics Chapter 5 A TCP-Informed Semantic Theory of Quotation Chapter 6 A Trichotomous Construal of the Mention-Dimension of Quotation Chapter 7 A Trichotomous Conception of the Use-Dimension of Quotation Chapter 8 Toward Integration of the Two Trichotomies for a Semantic Theory of Quotation Chapter 9 Conclusion References. Index</strong> </p>