use-mention distinction

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use-mention distinction
A distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in "Cheese is derived from milk") and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in "Cheese is derived from a word in Old English")
use-mention distinctions
plural form of use-mention distinction