Quotation and truth-conditional pragmatics (1st)

Quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines - quotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction.

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.

In this book, quotation is clearly defined as a constituent embedded within yet distinctive from the quotational sentence.

Addressing 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.