Quotations are a prominent linguistic device used to express claims, assessments, or attitudes attributed to speakers.
the analysis of quotations is gaining traction in computational linguistics and digital humanities, providing evidence for speaker relationships Agarwal et al., 2012), inter-speaker sentiment (Nalisnick and Baird, 2013), politeness (Faruqui and Pado, 2012), and narrative structure (Jannidis et al., 2018).