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Every theory of pure quotation embraces in some form or another the intuitively obvious thesis that pure quotations refer to their quoted expressions. However, they all remain vague (and sometimes even inconsistent) about the nature of these latter. This paper proposes to take seriously the fact that quoted items are semantic, not syntactic objects, and to develop therefrom a semantics for pure quotation that retains the basic intuitions and at the same time circumvents standard problems.
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Bazzoni, A. Pure quotation, metalanguage and metasemantics. Linguist and Philos 39, 119–149 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9186-8
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