scare quote

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别名

scare-quote

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A quotation mark deliberately used to provoke a reaction or to indicate that the author does not approve of a term or clause, rather than to identify a direct quotation.

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上位词 3

quote inverted comma quotation mark

词源

Coined by British analytic philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe in 1956 in her essay “Aristotle and the Sea Battle”. Originally spelt with a hyphen as scare-quotes.

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