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<quote>

quotation

contains a phrase or passage attributed by the narrator or author to some agency external to the text.

Module coreCOHQQDSGRP

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

linking

spoken

tagdocs

verse

Note

If a bibliographic citation is supplied for the source of a quotation, the two may be grouped using the cit element.

Example

Lexicography has shown little sign of being affected by the
work of followers of J.R. Firth, probably best summarized in his
slogan,
<quote>You shall know a word by the company it
keeps</quote>
<ref>(Firth, 1957)</ref>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
  </content>