Quotation Unbound – Bridging the Divide Across Quotation Types

Quotation is a linguistic device that speakers employ to reflect on language, to attribute utterances to speakers or writers, and to highlight particular expressions within discourse. The functions of quotation therefore range from metalinguistic reference and speaker attribution to indicating non-stereotypical uses of language. At the same time, quotation has posed a challenge for traditional semantic and pragmatic accounts, for instance by disrupting assumptions about compositionality and by blurring the boundary between truth-conditional content and metalinguistic reference across quotation types.