Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas I: Quoting 5
2 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas II: Mentioning 21
3 Great Moments in the History of the Inverted Commas III: Mixed (or Subsentential) Quotation 39
4 Three Themes from Pictures 49
5 Quotations as Pictures I: Representational Content 63
6 Quotations as Pictures II: Exemplificational Content 77
7 Other Explananda for a Theory of Quotation 93
8 What Do the Inverted Commas Do? 109
9 Scare Quotes and the Nonliteral Use of the Inverted Commas 131
10 Quotations in Pictures 143
Notes 175
References 213
Index 227

About the Author

Josef 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 Metaphor in Context (MIT Press), The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide, and other books.