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| '''Quotation marks.''' Ordinary quotation marks (“ ”) can be used in the customary ways to create names for signs, concatenated signs, or pieces of text that they enclose. Unfortunately, for formal purposes, ordinary quotation marks have the disadvantage of being used for several other functions besides that of creating names for enclosed signs and texts. In particular, the same marks are frequently used for a motley crew of ''emphatic functions'' or ''monitory purposes'', that is, simply to call an extra measure of attention to the sign or the text enclosed, but without necessarily intending to interrupt its significance or to interfere with the corresponding process of denotation. | | '''Quotation marks.''' Ordinary quotation marks (“ ”) can be used in the customary ways to create names for signs, concatenated signs, or pieces of text that they enclose. Unfortunately, for formal purposes, ordinary quotation marks have the disadvantage of being used for several other functions besides that of creating names for enclosed signs and texts. In particular, the same marks are frequently used for a motley crew of ''emphatic functions'' or ''monitory purposes'', that is, simply to call an extra measure of attention to the sign or the text enclosed, but without necessarily intending to interrupt its significance or to interfere with the corresponding process of denotation. |
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− | '''Arch quotations.''' An alternative form of quotation is provided through the employment of ''raised angle brackets'' (<sup>⟨</sup> <sup>⟩</sup>), also called ''arches'' or ''supercilia''. These marks are reserved to the sole purpose of creating signs for signs and generating names for pieces of text, in keeping with the ''nominal intention'' and the ''normal use'' of quotation marks. | + | '''Arch quotations.''' An alternative form of quotation is provided through the employment of ''raised angle brackets'' (<sup><</sup> <sup>></sup>), also called ''arches'' or ''supercilia''. These marks are reserved to the sole purpose of creating signs for signs and generating names for pieces of text, in keeping with the ''nominal intention'' and the ''normal use'' of quotation marks. |
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| '''Titles and headings.''' An arbitrary title for a syntactic object or a textual segment is created simply by designating anything whatsoever to a service in that role. Whatever it is before being dubbed as the title of the material in question, it becomes a pointer to its appointed object simply by virtue of being so dubbed, if nothing else, at least as regarded by a single interpreter that is duly appointed to appoint things so, if only for the sake of a purely personal recognizance. | | '''Titles and headings.''' An arbitrary title for a syntactic object or a textual segment is created simply by designating anything whatsoever to a service in that role. Whatever it is before being dubbed as the title of the material in question, it becomes a pointer to its appointed object simply by virtue of being so dubbed, if nothing else, at least as regarded by a single interpreter that is duly appointed to appoint things so, if only for the sake of a purely personal recognizance. |