Abstract
There are at least four varieties of quotation, including pure, direct, indirect and mixed. A theory of quotation, we argue, should give a unified account of these varieties of quotation. Mixed quotes such as “Alice said that life is ‘difficult to understand’”, in which an utterance is directly and indirectly quoted concurrently, is an often overlooked variety of quotation. We show that the leading theories of pure, direct, and indirect quotation are unable to account for mixed quotation and therefore unable to provide a unified theory. In the second half of the paper we develop a unified theory of quotation based on Davidson’s demonstrative theory. “Language is the instrument it is because the same expression, with semantic features (meaning) unchanged, can serve countless purposes.” (Davidson 1968)
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