Scare Quotes And Punctuation

Style guides and scare quoting.

Scare quotes and punctuation. The same applies to scare quotes. Authors of ancient greece used a mark called a diple periestigmene for that purpose. For those wordsmiths and linguaphiles among us there seems no more fitting way to celebrate all hallows eve than with a tribute to the most frightening of punctuation marks scare quotes. So you can write translations like this.

The serbs are closing in on the safe haven of goražde. The use of a graphic symbol on an expression to indicate irony or dubiousness goes back much further. To a lawyer the scare quotes may simply indicate a legally defined term but to a lay person they produce the opposite effect. The origins use and abuse of scare quotes by susan doose.

You might see quotation marks used instead of parentheses for translations. He rarely spoke of the incident that caused him to leave his previous employer. Bre may make a distinction i do at my workplace for example between pieces of quoted speech and words that are special with punctuation marks inside the double quotes for speech and outside the single marks for special use. In ame style the punctuation is almost always inside any sort of quotation.

2016 in a punctuation mark. Quotation marks and adjacent punctuation. Rather than grounding the term they undermine it an exhibit at the museum of modern art took the word primitive with a grain of salt as indicated by the scare quotes around it in the title. The point here is that the town has been officially declared a safe haven by the un whereas in fact as the quote marks make clear it is anything but safe.

As such if you re working to a style guide make sure to look for advice about this kind of punctuation. As with most aspects of writing different style guides have different rules about scare quotes. Quite often scare quotes are used to express irony or sarcasm. Elizabeth anscombe coined the term scare quotes as it refers to punctuation marks in 1956 in an essay entitled aristotle and the sea battle published in mind.

Scare quotes also known as sneer quotes are used to cast doubt on a word or phrase or to emphasize that the word or phrase is being used as a euphemism. Scare quotes are sort of like air quotes and if you know anything about air quotes you know that they should be used in moderation. Scare quotes also known even more colorfully as shudder quotes and sneer quotes are identical to standard quotation marks but do.