2020-12-14
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด Q – Quotation marks
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ออกเสียง Quotation marks = ‘kwoh-TEY-shuhn mahrk’
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Quotation marks
The examples below are set off in order to avoidconfusion
over the use of single and double quotation marks.
There are many ways to go wrong with quotation marks.
They are often used ironically:
She ran around with a bunch of “intellectuals.”
The quotation marks around “intellectuals”
indicate that the writer believes that
these are in fact so called intellectuals, not real intellectuals at all.
The ironic use of quotation marksis very much overdone,
and is usually a sign of laziness
indicating that the writer has not bothered to find
the precise word or expressionnecessary.
Advertisers unfortunately tend to use quotation marks
merely for emphasis:
“FRESH” TOMATOES 59 CENTS A POUND
The influence of the more common ironic usage
tends to make the reader
question whether these tomatoes are really fresh.
Underlining, bold lettering, all caps
—there are several less ambiguous ways to emphasize words
than placing them between quotation marks.
In American usage,
single quotation marks are used normally only
for quoted words and phrases within quotations.
Angela had the nerve to tell me
“When I saw ‘BYOB’ on your invitation,
I assumed it meant ‘Bring Your Old Boyfriend’.”
British usage tends to reverse this relationship,
with single quotation marks being standard
and double ones being used only for quotations within quotations.
(The English also call quotation marks “inverted commas,”
though only the opening quotation mark is actually inverted
—and flipped, as well.)
Single quotation marks are also used
in linguistic, phonetic, and philosophical studies
to surround words and phrases under discussion;
but the common practice of using
single quotation marks for short phrasesand words
and double ones for complete sentencesis otherwise an error.
Block quotations like this
should not be surrounded by any quotation marksat all.
(A passage this short should not be rendered as a block quotation;
you need at least three lines of verse or five lines of prose to justify a block quotation.)
Normally you should leave extra space
above and below a block quotation.
Normally you should leave extra space above and below a block quotation.
When quoting a long passage involving more than one paragraph, quotation marks go at the beginning of each paragraph,
but at the end of only the final one.
Dialogue in which the speaker changes with eachparagraph
has each speech enclosed in its own quotation marks.
Titles of books and other long works that might be printed as books
are usually italicized (except, for some reason, in newspapers);
but the titles of short poems, stories, essays,
and other works that would be more commonly printed within larger works (anthologies, collections, periodicals, etc.) are enclosed in quotation marks.
There are different patterns for
regulating how quotation marks relate to other punctuation.
Find out which one your teacher or editor prefers and use it,
or choose one of your own liking, but stick to it consistently.
One widely accepted authority in America is the Chicago Manual of Style, whose guidelines are outlined below.
English, Canadian, Australian and other writers in British-influenced countries should be aware that their national patterns will be quite different, and variable.
In standard American practice,
commas are placed inside quotation marks:
I spent the morning reading Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,”
which seemed to be about a pyromaniac.
Periods are also normally placed inside quotation marks
(with the exception of terms being defined, see above).
Colons and semicolons, however, are preceded by quotation marks.
If the quoted matter ends with a question mark or exclamation point,
it is placed inside the quotation marks:
John asked, “When’s dinner?”
But if it is the enclosing sentence which asks the question,
then the question mark comes after thequotation marks:
What did she mean, John wondered, by saying “as soon as you make it”?
Similarly:
Fred shouted, “Look out for the bull!”
but
When I was subsequently gored, all Timmy said was “this is kinda boring”!
Finally,
I must lament that many standard character sets,
including ASCII and basic HTML,
lack true quotation marks which curl to enclose the quoted matter,
substituting instead ugly “inch” or “ditto” marks.
Some browsers can translate the code for a true quotation mark
(and true, curled apostrophes), but many cannot.
