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It is best to read the superscripts on attributed signs as accentuations and integral parts of the quotation marks, taking <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime\text{A}}\!</math> and <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime\text{B}}\!</math> as variant inflections of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime}.\!</math> Thus, I can refer to the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> just as I would refer to the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> in the present informal context, without any additional marks of quotation.
It is best to read the superscripts on attributed signs as accentuations and integral parts of the quotation marks, taking <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime\text{A}}\!</math> and <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime\text{B}}\!</math> as variant inflections of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime}.\!</math> Thus, I can refer to the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> just as I would refer to the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> in the present informal context, without any additional marks of quotation.
Taking a cue from this usage, the ordinary quotes that I use to mark salient relationships of signs and expressions with respect to the informal context can now be regarded as quotes that I myself, operating as a casual interpreter, tacitly index. Even without knowing the complete sign relation that I have in mind, the one that I presumably use to conduct this discussion, the sign relation that <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{I} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> represents can nevertheless be partially formalized by means of a certain functional equation, namely, the following equation between semantic functions:
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By way of vocal expression, the attributed sign "X"Y can be pronounced as '"X" quoth Y ' or '"X" used by Y '. To facilitate visual imagery, each token of the type "X"Y can be pictured as a specific occasion where the sign "X" is being used or issued by the interpreter Y.
By way of vocal expression, the attributed sign "X"Y can be pronounced as '"X" quoth Y ' or '"X" used by Y '. To facilitate visual imagery, each token of the type "X"Y can be pictured as a specific occasion where the sign "X" is being used or issued by the interpreter Y.