Scare quotes as deontic modals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3987888 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Wiślicki (0000-0002-9293-4593, University of Warsaw , Warsaw , Poland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 417-457 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2021-0083 |
| OpenAlex | W4323357337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 64 |
The aim of this article is to propose a formal semantic account of scare quotation (SQ). I present data showing that SQ, though flexible, is subject to regular and so far largely unnoticed limitations following from the infelicitous use of irony as well as the division between at-issue and not-at-issue content parts. While these effects can hardly be accounted for by assuming that the ironic aspect of SQ involves negation, they are in harmony with basic properties of deontic modality. I formulate a deontic modal account of SQ which not only predicts the complex behaviour of SQ, but also sheds much new light on the formal nature of irony
Deontic logic · Epistemology · Imperfect · Irony · Linguistics · Modal · Modal verb · Modality (human–computer interaction) · Negation · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |