ABSTRACT
Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore's "Varieties of Quotation" builds on Donald Davidson to give an account of mixed quotation. The result is a rich paper, which introduces interesting data and raises many thought-provoking questions. Cappelen and Lepore are not unaware of the need to provide a compositional mechanism for mixed quotations. Cappelen and Lepore argue that mixed quotation poses a problem for what will call "traditional propositional theories" of indirect quotation: theories which require the reported speaker to stand in the saying relation to the proposition expressed by the complement clause. Cappelen and Lepore are likely mistaken when they claim that "the influential views on the semantics of indirect quotation cannot accommodate mixed quotation. All the "influential views" require, to cover mixed quotation, is a story about verbal imitation consistent with their treatment of indirect speech.
