The advantages of a pragmatic analysis of mixed quotation are those typical of pragmatic analyses in general: no extra semantic machinery is required to account for the problem cases. As such, versions of such an analysis have had many adherents at the end of the twentieth century (see, for example, Recanati (2001), Clark &amp; Gerrig (1990), Wilson (2000), Sperber &amp; Wilson (1981), Tsohatzidis (1998), Staintion (1999), Saka (2003) and the discussion in by Reimer (2003)).