Scare quotes as deontic modals
The aim of this article is to propose a formal semantic account of scare quotation (SQ). I present data showing that SQ, though flexible, is subject to regular and so far largely unnoticed limitations following from the infelicitous use of irony as well as the division between at-issue and not-at-is...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0083 |