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Varieties of Tone

Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning

  • Richard D. Kortum
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
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  3. Historical Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter
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    2. Historical Preliminaries
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    3. Frege’s Ingredients of Meaning
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    4. Theory of Meaning: Dummett’s Canonical Framework
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  4. Varieties of Tone

    1. Front Matter
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    2. Varieties of Tone
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    3. Frege’s Hints and Colors
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    4. Active vs. Passive Voice and Nominative-Dative Transformations
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    5. Onomatopeia, Assonance, and Alliteration
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      Pages 51-52
    6. Dialect, Subject, and Style Labels
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      Pages 53-64
    7. ‘Perspiration’ and ‘Sweat’
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    8. ‘Dead’ and ‘Deceased’
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    9. ‘Doggie’ and ‘Bunny’
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    10. ‘Woman’ and ‘Lady’ and ‘Vous’ and ‘Tu’
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    11. Poetic Language
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    12. The Adverbs ‘Still’, ‘Already’, and ‘Yet’
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      Pages 82-86
    13. Conjunctions and the Limits of Truth-Table Logic
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      Pages 87-101
    14. Expressive Terms: Pejoratives and Honorifics
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      Pages 102-118
    15. Evocatives: Profanity and Other Taboos
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      Pages 119-133
    16. Funny Words: The Language of Humor
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      Pages 134-142
    17. Interjections
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    18. Sentence Adverbs
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    19. Conducive Questions
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      Pages 165-177
    20. Hyperonyms and Hyponyms
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      Pages 178-180
    21. A Taxonomy of Tone
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      Pages 181-188

  5. Tone and the Representational Character of Meaning

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 189-189
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    2. Tone and the Representational Character of Meaning
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      Pages 191-192
    3. Shades of Sense
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      Pages 193-197
    4. Towards a Comprehensive Formula
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      Pages 198-221
    5. Theory of Meaning Revisited
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      Pages 222-232
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 233-258
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About this book

Introduction

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.

Keywords

bibliography Chinese discourse Gottlob Frege nation prose truth

Authors and affiliations

  • Richard D. Kortum
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  1. 1.East Tennessee State UniversityUSA

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