This element may be used for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from elsewhere, and passages that are mentioned but not used.
Do not confuse this element, used to capture phrase-level quotations, and quote, intended for block quotations.
The model of this element is based on the q element of HTML and the q element of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
<elementSpec ident="q" module="MEI.text">
<gloss xml:lang="en">quoted</gloss>
<desc xml:lang="en">Contains material which is distinguished from the surrounding phrase-level text
using quotation marks or a similar method. Use
<gi scheme="MEI">quote</gi> for block-level
quotations.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.basic"/>
<memberOf key="att.classed"/>
<memberOf key="att.labelled"/>
<memberOf key="att.lang"/>
<memberOf key="att.linking"/>
<memberOf key="att.nNumberLike"/>
<memberOf key="att.responsibility"/>
<memberOf key="att.textRendition"/>
<memberOf key="model.qLike"/>
</classes>
<content>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
</content>
<attList>
<attDef ident="type" usage="opt">
<datatype maxOccurs="unbounded">
<rng:data type="NMTOKEN"/>
</datatype>
<valList type="semi">
<valItem ident="spoken">
<desc xml:lang="en">Representation of speech.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="thought">
<desc xml:lang="en">Representation of thought,
<abbr>e.g.</abbr>, internal monologue.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="written">
<desc xml:lang="en">Quotation from a written source.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="soCalled">
<desc xml:lang="en">Authorial distance.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="foreign">
<desc xml:lang="en">Linguistically distinct.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="distinct">
<desc xml:lang="en">Linguistically distinct.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="term">
<desc xml:lang="en">Technical term.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="emph">
<desc xml:lang="en">Rhetorically emphasized.</desc>
</valItem>
<valItem ident="mentioned">
<desc xml:lang="en">Refering to itself, not its normal referent.</desc>
</valItem>
</valList>
</attDef>
</attList>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>This element may be used for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct
speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from
elsewhere,
and passages that are mentioned but not used.</p>
<p>Do not confuse this element, used to capture phrase-level quotations, and <gi scheme="MEI">quote</gi>, intended for block quotations.</p>
</remarks>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>The model of this element is based on the <ref target="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-q-element">q</ref> element of
<abbr>HTML</abbr> and the <ref target="https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-q.html">q</ref> element of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>