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Full Idea
Disquotation cannot pretend to give a complete account of the concept of truth, since it works only in the special case where the metalanguage contains the object language. Neither can contain their own truth predicate.
Gist of Idea
Disquotation only accounts for truth if the metalanguage contains the object language
Source
Donald Davidson (Truth Rehabilitated [1997], p.10)
Book Ref
Davidson,Donald: 'Truth, Language and History' [OUP 2005], p.10
A Reaction
Presumably more sophisticated and complete accounts would need a further account of translation between languages - which explains Quine's interest in that topic. […see this essay, p.12]