They are also widely used in spoken language when an interlocutor wishes to present a proposition that they have come to know via hearsay.Ī quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition. Quotations are often used as a literary device to represent someone's point of view. Quotations are also used to present well-known statement parts that are explicitly attributed by citation to their original source such statements are marked with ( punctuated with) quotation marks. In written text, quotations are signaled by quotation marks. Quotations in oral speech are also signaled by special prosody in addition to quotative markers. For example: John said: "I saw Mary today". of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. For other uses, see Quotation (disambiguation).Ī quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark.
This article is about quoting text and speech.
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