{"product_id":"quotations-as-pictures-isbn-9780262543132","title":"Quotations as Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eQuotations as Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, Josef Stern develops a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures. He offers the first sustained analysis of the practice of quotation proper, as opposed to mentioning. Unlike other accounts that treat quotation as mentioning, \u003ci\u003eQuotations as Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the two practices have independent histories, that they behave differently semantically, that the inverted commas employed in both mentioning and quotation are homonymous, that so-called mixed quotation is nothing but subsentential quotation, and that the major problem of quotation is to explain its dual reference or meaning—its ordinary meaning and its metalinguistic reference to the quoted phrase attributed to the quoted subject. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStern argues that the key to understanding quotation is the idea that quotations are pictures or have a pictorial character. As a phenomenon where linguistic competence meets a nonlinguistic symbolic ability, the pictorial, quotation is a combination of features drawn from the two different symbol systems of language and pictures, which explains the exceptional and sometimes idiosyncratic data about quotation. In light of this analysis of verbal quotation, in the last chapters Stern analyzes scare quotation as a nonliteral expressive use of the inverted commas and explores the possibility of quotation in pictures themselves.\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas I: Quoting 5\u003cbr\u003e2 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas II: Mentioning 21\u003cbr\u003e3 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas III: Mixed (or Subsentential) Quotation 39\u003cbr\u003e4 Three Themes from Pictures 49\u003cbr\u003e5 Quotations as Pictures I: Representational Content 63\u003cbr\u003e6 Quotations as Pictures II: Exemplificational Content 77\u003cbr\u003e7 Other Explananda for a Theory of Quotation 93\u003cbr\u003e8 What Do the Inverted Commas Do? 109\u003cbr\u003e9 Scare Quotes and the Nonliteral Use of the Inverted Commas 131\u003cbr\u003e10 Quotations in Pictures 143\u003cbr\u003eNotes 175\u003cbr\u003eReferences 213\u003cbr\u003eIndex 227“This is a wonderful contribution to an underdiscussed issue. I have profited considerably from reading it.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eWilliam Lycan, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut; author of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJosef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Chicago and was the Inaugural Director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMetaphor in Context\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press), \u003ci\u003eThe Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. \u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301116399845,"sku":"NP9780262543132","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543132.jpg?v=1767735317","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/quotations-as-pictures-isbn-9780262543132","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}