0 quotation marks (= the symbols “ ” or ‘ ’ ) that are sometimes put around a word or phrase in a written sentence in order to show that the word is being used in a special way or in a way that may not be correct or true: --
A bracketed exclamation point or question mark as well as scare quotes are also sometimes used to express irony or ironic sarcasm.
Orthographic conventions to mark or substitute for prosody include punctuation (commas, exclamation marks, question marks, scare quotes, and ellipses), and typographic styling for emphasis (italic, bold, and underlined text).
Scare quotes may be used to express disagreement with the original speaker's intended meaning without actually establishing grounds for disagreement or disdain, or without even explicitly acknowledging it.
Alternatively, material in scare quotes may represent the writer's concise (but possibly misleading) paraphrasing, characterization, or intentional misrepresentation of statements, concepts, or terms used by a third party.
The fact that these words were used regularly, even if in scare quotes, gave the impression that the view being put forward was somehow not rejecting these concepts.
In this case, unlike many other applications of scare quotes, the enclosed word is an actual quotation from another source.
Stove contended that these authors got around this problem by using these success words, but in scare quotes, e.g., knowledge.
The term "scare quotes" may be confusing because the word "scare" implies provocation, yet the term covers emotionally neutral usage as well.
