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The connotative mechanism, relying on prior quotations and established titles, ...

The connotative mechanism, relying on prior quotations and established titles, ...

'''Acronyms.'''

Acronyms.  

 

'Tis not the surging billows' roar,

| 'Tis not the surging billows' roar,

'Tis not that fatal, deadly shore;

Tho death in ev'ry shape appear,

| 'Tis not that fatal, deadly shore;

The wretched have no more to fear;

But round my heart the ties are bound,

| Tho death in ev'ry shape appear,

That heart transpierc'd with many a wound;

These bleed afresh, those ties I tear,

| The wretched have no more to fear;

To leave the bonie banks of Ayr.

Robert Burns, The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast,

| But round my heart the ties are bound,

[CPW, 250]

| That heart transpierc'd with many a wound;

| These bleed afresh, those ties I tear,

| To leave the bonie banks of Ayr.

| align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast'', [CPW, 250]

The denotative mechanism, ...

The denotative mechanism, ...

These are devices whose function it is to operate on signs, including all sorts of characters, expressions, phrases, and texts, and whose result it is to generate signs that refer to their respective arguments as objects.   

These are devices whose function it is to operate on signs, including all sorts of characters, expressions, phrases, and texts, and whose result it is to generate signs that refer to their respective arguments as objects.   

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.

 

'''Arch quotations.'''  An alternative form of quotation is provided through the employment of ''raised angle brackets'' (^⟨ ^⟩), 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" (< >), 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.

'''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.

| Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales,

Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales,

Her heathy moors and winding vales;

| Her heathy moors and winding vales;

The scenes where wretched Fancy roves,

Pursuing past unhappy loves!

| The scenes where wretched Fancy roves,

Farewell my friends!  farewell my foes!

My peace with these, my love with those

| Pursuing past unhappy loves!

The bursting tears my heart declare,

Farewell, my bonie banks of Ayr!

| Farewell my friends!  farewell my foes!

Robert Burns, The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast,

[CPW, 251]

| My peace with these, my love with those &mdash;

| The bursting tears my heart declare,

| Farewell, my bonie banks of Ayr!

| align="right" | &mdash; Robert Burns, ''The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast,'', [CPW, 251]

The highest order of generality among titles is not absolutely necessary in the present context.  More commonly, a title is a pre arranged sign, a pre established mark, a prefixed epithet, or a pre ordained piece of text that gets re used, perhaps subject to a conventional modification or a special inflection, to serve as a sign or a name for what is customarily a disjoint sign or a distinct piece of text.  Under typical circumstances, although not universal, the syntactic entity or the textual object to which a title refers is a much longer text, and thus one that occasions the practical need among its interpreters of having a briefer alias or a compressed designation for it.  In short, a title is intended to serve a purpose that is similar to one of the roles of ordinary quotation, but subject to orders of pragmatic constraints that quotation marks, when literally taken and expressly used, are clearly not able to satisfy.  Putting aside for the time being the issues that are raised by this general discussion, I revert to the ordinary use of quoted expressions and italicized phrases as the titles of texts.

The highest order of generality among titles is not absolutely necessary in the present context.  More commonly, a title is a pre-arranged sign, a pre-established mark, a prefixed epithet, or a pre-ordained piece of text that gets re used, perhaps subject to a conventional modification or a special inflection, to serve as a sign or a name for what is customarily a disjoint sign or a distinct piece of text.  Under typical circumstances, although not universal, the syntactic entity or the textual object to which a title refers is a much longer text, and thus one that occasions the practical need among its interpreters of having a briefer alias or a compressed designation for it.  In short, a title is intended to serve a purpose that is similar to one of the roles of ordinary quotation, but subject to orders of pragmatic constraints that quotation marks, when literally taken and expressly used, are clearly not able to satisfy.  Putting aside for the time being the issues that are raised by this general discussion, I revert to the ordinary use of quoted expressions and italicized phrases as the titles of texts.

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