224996

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2013

258 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-44259-1

Varieties of tone

Frege, Dummett and the shades of meaning

Richard D. Kortum

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.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/9781137263544

Full citation:

Kortum, R. D. (2013). Varieties of tone: Frege, Dummett and the shades of meaning, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Historical preliminaries

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11-14

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Frege's ingredients of meaning

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15-21

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Theory of meaning

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22-30

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Varieties of tone

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33-39

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Frege's hints and colors

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40-46

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Dialect, subject, and style labels

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53-64

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"Perspiration" and "sweat"

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65-66

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"Dead" and "deceased"

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67-69

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"Doggie" and "bunny"

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70-71

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"Woman" and "lady" and "vous' and "tu"

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72-74

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Poetic language

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75-81

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Expressive terms

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102-118

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Evocatives

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119-133

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Funny words

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134-142

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Interjections

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143-148

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Sentence adverbs

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149-164

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Conducive questions

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165-177

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Hyperonyms and hyponyms

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178-180

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A taxonomy of tone

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181-188

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Shades of sense

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193-197

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Towards a comprehensive formula

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198-221

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Theory of meaning revisited

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222-232

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