Date:  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:53:16 -0400

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: scare quotes



i've been looking in likely places for citations of "scare quotes."

(i've got to write 3 exams for tomorrow. i think this explains my

vigorous interest in finding citations today.) and i've only found

one, but here it is, for what it's worth.



from a handout given to students by georgia green (ca. 1990, dept.

of linguistics, university of illinois/urbana):



        A STOPLIST OF WORDS AND MORPHEMES



Your claims will be more testable, and your prose more persuasive if

the following words do not appear in it.



1  Hedges

_should_, _may_, _can_, _seem_, _considered_, _likely, scare quotes*



*Use italics or underlining to mark linguistic expressions cited as

forms, single quotes to mark meanings. Use double quotes for

direct quotation only. Do not use scare quotes at all. Do as I

say, not as I do.



...





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