Varieties of Tone [electronic resource] : Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning /
Kortum, Richard D.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Frontispiece; Introduction; Part I Historical Preliminaries; 1.1 Historical Preliminaries; 1.2 Frege's Ingredients of Meaning; 1.3 Theory of Meaning: Dummett's Canonical Framework; Part II Varieties of Tone; 2.1 Varieties of Tone; 2.2 Frege's Hints and Colors; 2.3 Active vs. Passive Voice and Nominative-Dative Transformations; 2.4 Onomatopeia, Assonance, and Alliteration; 2.5 Dialect, Subject, and Style Labels; 2.6 'Perspiration' and 'Sweat'; 2.7 'Dead' and 'Deceased'; 2.8 'Doggie' and 'Bunny'
2.9 'Woman' and 'Lady' and 'Vous' and 'Tu'2.10 Poetic Language; 2.11 The Adverbs 'Still', 'Already', and 'Yet'; 2.12 Conjunctions and the Limits of Truth-Table Logic; 2.13 Expressive Terms: Pejoratives and Honorifics; 2.14 Evocatives: Profanity and Other Taboos; 2.15 Funny Words: The Language of Humor; 2.16 Interjections; 2.17 Sentence Adverbs; 2.18 Conducive Questions; 2.19 Hyperonyms and Hyponyms; 2.20 A Taxonomy of Tone; Part III Tone and the Representational Character of Meaning; 3.1 Tone and the Representational Character of Meaning; 3.2 Shades of Sense
3.3 Towards a Comprehensive Formula3.4 Theory of Meaning Revisited; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Linguistics
Analysis (Philosophy).
Philosophy, modern.
Pragmatics.
Semantics.
Philosophy of Language.
Linguistics, general.
Analytic Philosophy.
Modern Philosophy.
Pragmatics.
Semantics.