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Printed rubrics from the libretto are in italics; sung text is in inverted commas.
Inverted commas around taxonomic names imply that taxonomic attribution at this level is questionable.
When a word or phrase is placed in inverted commas, it allows us a provisional use of it.
It is iterative and has the appearance of slang, and is commonly put in inverted commas.
Inverted commas make a word inclusive beyond its initial meaning.
These rules are sometimes arbitrary and irrelevant to the sense; for example, that commas and periods come inside inverted commas, and colons and semi-colons outside.
I use inverted commas to signal that this seemingly innocent term has to cover so much that containing it is as difficult as defining it.
The inverted commas around belongs suggest perhaps that standard notions of constituency do not apply here.
Now, when we put a word in inverted commas are we in effect placing it within a proscenium, theatricalizing it?
Linguistically speaking, placing a word in inverted commas has the opposite effect; it becomes more inclusive.
The placing of the closing inverted commas after the sentence-final stop is a common publishers' convention, if an illogical one.
Interestingly, in the latter case, the word is often placed within 'inverted commas'.
This is nowhere so well illustrated as in the thousands of inverted commas which litter academic papers (my own included).
The very words have scarcely yet entered the historian's vocabulary, except perhaps to the accompaniment of deprecatory inverted commas.
One set of values is not merely exchanged for another, however, but placed in the background, so that its substitution appears, so to speak, in inverted commas.
