Scare quotes

this may be the earliest usage we have documented so far, but context in her article suggests she didn't coin it herself

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== History == == History == [[Elizabeth Anscombe]] coined the term ''scare quotes'' as it refers to punctuation marks in 1956 in an essay titled "Aristotle and the Sea Battle", published in'' [[Mind (journal) |Mind]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anscombe |first1=G. E. M. |title=I.--Aristotle And The Sea Battle |journal=Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy |date=1 January 1956 |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 |doi=10.1093/mind/65.1.1 |jstor=2251218}}</ref> The use of a graphic symbol on an expression to indicate irony or dubiousness goes back much further: Authors of ancient Greece used a mark called a ''[[Diple (textual symbol)|diple periestigmene]]'' for that purpose.<ref>Finnegan, Ruth. ''Why Do We Quote?: The Culture and History of Quotation''. Open Book Publishers (2011). {{ISBN|9781906924331}}. p. 86.</ref> Beginning in the 1990s, the use of scare quotes became widespread.<ref>Howells, Richard, editor. ''Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society''. Palgrave Macmillan. (2012) {{ISBN|9780230350168}}, p. 89.</ref><ref name="Haack, Susan 2000 page 202">Haack, Susan, editor. ''Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays''. University of Chicago Press (2000) {{ISBN|9780226311371}}, p. 202.</ref><ref>Perlman, Merrill. {{"'}}Scare' Tactics". ''Columbia Journalism Review''. 28 January 2013.</ref> [[Postmodernist]] authors in particular have theorized about [[Bracketing (phenomenology)|bracketing]] punctuation, including scare quotes, and have found reasons for their frequent use in their writings.<ref name="Pinker, Steven 2014"/><ref> [[Elizabeth Anscombe]] may have coined the term ''scare quotes'' as it refers to punctuation marks in 1956 in an essay titled "Aristotle and the Sea Battle", published in'' [[Mind (journal) |Mind]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anscombe |first1=G. E. M. |title=I.--Aristotle And The Sea Battle |journal=Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy |date=1 January 1956 |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 |doi=10.1093/mind/65.1.1 |jstor=2251218}}</ref> The use of a graphic symbol on an expression to indicate irony or dubiousness goes back much further: Authors of ancient Greece used a mark called a ''[[Diple (textual symbol)|diple periestigmene]]'' for that purpose.<ref>Finnegan, Ruth. ''Why Do We Quote?: The Culture and History of Quotation''. Open Book Publishers (2011). {{ISBN|9781906924331}}. p. 86.</ref> Beginning in the 1990s, the use of scare quotes became widespread.<ref>Howells, Richard, editor. ''Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society''. Palgrave Macmillan. (2012) {{ISBN|9780230350168}}, p. 89.</ref><ref name="Haack, Susan 2000 page 202">Haack, Susan, editor. ''Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays''. University of Chicago Press (2000) {{ISBN|9780226311371}}, p. 202.</ref><ref>Perlman, Merrill. {{"'}}Scare' Tactics". ''Columbia Journalism Review''. 28 January 2013.</ref> [[Postmodernist]] authors in particular have theorized about [[Bracketing (phenomenology)|bracketing]] punctuation, including scare quotes, and have found reasons for their frequent use in their writings.<ref name="Pinker, Steven 2014"/><ref> * Nash, Christopher. ''The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind''. Edinburgh University Press. (2001) {{ISBN|9780748612154}}, p. 92. * Nash, Christopher. ''The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind''. Edinburgh University Press. (2001) {{ISBN|9780748612154}}, p. 92. * Saguaro, Shelley. ''Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (2006) {{ISBN|9780754637530}}, p. 62. * Saguaro, Shelley. ''Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (2006) {{ISBN|9780754637530}}, p. 62.