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Summary Of: Scare quotes

Scare quotes are often intended to provoke a negative association for the word or phrase enclosed in... an approximation of scare quotes is a hand gesture known as... The effect of using scare quotes is often similar to prepending a skeptical modifier such as... Scare quotes may be used to express disagreement with the original speaker... style guides generally recommend the avoidance of scare quotes in impartial works... scare quotes lose their force and irritate readers if overused...

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quotation marks | air quotes | neologism | jargon | slang | use–mention distinction | archetype | Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 15th edition | linguistics | gloss | meta language | object language | italics | Use–mention distinction | Trask, Larry | 20 March | 2000 | ISBN 978-0226354705 | 2007 | 11-08 | Cambridge, England | Cambridge University Press | Categories | Newswriting | Punctuation |
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