Nonstandard Quotes: Superimpositions and Cultural Maps

College Composition and Communication Dec 2002

Nonstandard Quotes: Superimpositions and Cultural Maps

Barbara Schneider

Abstract

We regularly chastise students for placing quotation marks around words that are not direct quotations. Yet, as this research shows, professionals use nonstandard quotations routinely and to rhetorical advantage. After analyzing the various purposes nonstandard quotations serve, I argue student use of the marks jars us not because it departs from good practice but because, through them, students invoke voices we do not want to recognize.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2002-12-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc20021480
Open Access: Closed
Topics: voice and style

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