By Colleen Flaherty. Everyone knows that there’s only one use for single quotation marks, and that’s to denote a quote within a quote. Right?
Apparently not. Composition instructors report seeing an uptick in the intentional use of single-quotation marks outside their traditional use, to indicate internal dialogue, irony, non-original short phrases or neologisms. Read more...
27 octobre 2014
Questionable Quotations
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