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A UNIFIED THEORY OF QUOTATION
Author(s) -
Akiba Ken
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00220.x
Subject(s) - extant taxon , identity (music) , expression (computer science) , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , aesthetics , evolutionary biology , biology , programming language
This paper offers a theory of quotation by uniting two apparently disparate extant theories, Recanati's pragmatic theory and Washington's identity theory. Recanati draws a distinction between open and closed quotations, and contends that open quotations do not refer. Washington argues that closed quotations refer to various expression types, not just orthographic and/or phonetic types. By combining these views, this paper proposes a theory, according to which quotations, open or closed, may be tokens of semantico‐physical types (i.e., meaningful expressions), and while those types are mentioned (or referred to ) by closed quotations, they are used in open quotations.