Verbal Behavior (VB) was Skinner's most important work. Generic self-analyses of the behavior registered on VB appears in its final parts and in other works from the author. This paper describes the functions of two specific subclasses of quoting episodes with another author's text transcription included by Skinner in VB. It deals with a historical research of the VB as the record of Skinner's verbal behavior. From the general description of quoting with transcription, a functional analysis of

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... wo distinct subclasses was carried out by their autoclitic frame, according to the behavioral hermeneutics: a method that instructs a description of the controls over interpreting. The formal-functional variations of both subclasses are informed: accurate verbal stimuli evoked the "argumentative" quoting (uttered with descriptive autoclitics) and the inaccurate stimuli evoked the "counter-argumentative" ones (uttered with manipulative and/or negation autoclitics). Despite the difficulty in discriminating all the controls on the interpretation, this paper successfully shows the functional consistency of some the devices of persuasion in the Skinnerian rhetoric.