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| has gloss | (noun) the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology scare quote |
| has gloss | eng: Scare quotes is a term for a particular use of quotation marks. In this application, quotation marks are placed around a single word or phrase to indicate that the word or phrase does not signify its literal or conventional meaning. In contrast to the nominal typographic purpose of quotation marks, the enclosed word(s) are not necessarily quoted from another source. |
| lexicalization | eng: scare quotes |
| lexicalization | eng: scare quote |
| lexicalization | eng: Scarequotes |
| subclass of | (noun) a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else inverted comma, quote, quotation mark |
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| has gloss | swe: Scare quotes är ett uttryck som ungefärligen betyder att man sätter citationstecken runt en term eller ett uttryck som inte är ett citat. Genom att sätta något inom citationstecken kan författaren frånsäga sig ansvaret för termen eller uttrycket. Man kan även kalla motsvarande kroppsgest "att göra haröron". |
| lexicalization | swe: Scare quotes |
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| similar | e/Scare quotes |
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| media:img | AirQuotes.jpg |
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