Speech and Written Text
- Nested quotation, quotation inside a quotation
- Block quotation and Pull quotes, methods to highlight quotations in texts or on web pages
- Quotation mark glyphs, air quotes, and scare quotes, punctuation marks and their usage
- Quotation mining, compiling quotations
- Quoting out of context, a form of fallacy
- Use–mention distinction and quasi-quotation, the philosophical distinction between mentioning a word and using it to denote a thing or idea
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