Double quotation marks are used for direct quotations and titles of compositions such as books, plays, movies, songs, lectures and TV shows. They also can be used to indicate irony and introduce an ...

You can also use quotation marks to emphasize a word or phrase, often marking sarcasm or irony. Example: Let's go "buy" some Scotch. (Maybe you intend to steal or otherwise nab a bottle for free.) ...

Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks ... who first suggested an irony mark, which he thought ...

The AP Stylebook says that quotation marks can be used to signify irony: “Put quotation marks around a word or words used in an ironical sense: ‘The ‘debate’ turned into a free-for-all.'” ...

I refer to signage on which quotation marks are used to indicate neither quotation nor irony but just upbeat promotional emphasis, as if the quotation marks were substitutes for capital letters ...

What shocked me was the punctuation. Either the writer or the assignment editor who read the article before me got the quotation marks right. And considering how baffling American punctuation ...

but do precisely the opposite of what quotation marks are supposed to do: They signal irony, and uncertainty. They suggest words that don’t quite mean what they claim to. “Question,” they say.