Type of usage with quotation marks.
Television fans convinced are convinced Jerry is alive after Tom says that he 'thinks' the villain is dead.
This was as written in the paper but I've just swapped the names as they're irrelevant. But my question is about that the word thinks in quotation marks...Why does just thinks and not any other word get quotation marks as it's obvious the speaker used the word dead too?
The killers in both films wear masks, for instance, but in both cases they’re stalking a single woman in the confines of her own home, violating the group nature and “body count” rules necessary to slashers.
Again here body count get's quotation marks but not group nature. Why emphasize random words in quote that could be spoken by anybody.
Source.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/08/the-50-best-slasher-movies-of-all-time.html
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panda blue 483 Television fans convinced are convinced Jerry is alive after Tom says that he 'thinks' the villain is dead. "thinks" is singled out for special emphasis, to highlight the fact that he didn't state this with more certainty. ) panda blue 483 The killers in both films wear masks, for instance, but in both cases they’re stalking a single woman in the confines of her own home, violating the group nature and “body count” rules necessary to slashers.
- panda blue 483 Television fans convinced are convinced Jerry is alive after Tom says that he 'thinks' the villain is dead.
- "thinks" is singled out for special emphasis, to highlight the fact that he didn't state this with more certainty.
- ) panda blue 483 The killers in both films wear masks, for instance, but in both cases they’re stalking a single woman in the confines of her own home, violating the group nature and “body count” rules necessary to slashers.
- This is not quoting someone's speech.
- The quotation marks are used to draw attention to the fact that "body count" is a phrase, and possibly to acknowledge that it may be jargony or not necessarily familiar to all.
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panda blue 483Television fans convinced are convinced Jerry is alive after Tom says that he 'thinks' the villain is dead.
"thinks" is singled out for special emphasis, to highlight the fact that he didn't state this with more certainty. (In fact, "thinks" would not be the actual word spoken, as presumably he said "I think ...", but we allow this licence.)
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