ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how a split treatment in terms of use and mention can be transformed to an integrated account of quotation, which is justifiable on the basis of the interconnection between use and mention. The multi-layered meanings of quotation in both dimensions can be integrated in terms of the conventional meaning of quotation marks, which manifests the truth-conditional contribution of quotation. The chapter summarizes the quotational principle and the disquotational principle, with a view to integrating both dimensions into a holistic theory of the semantic content of quotation; and then it turns to reflect on the semantic contribution of quotation marks within such a semantic theory of quotation. It addresses the semantic contribution of quotation marks. Quotation marks are not a semantic marker. Strategies that appeal to the semantic characterization of quotation marks regard them as a demonstrative or an indexical.
