Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Historical Preliminaries....Pages 11-14
Frege’s Ingredients of Meaning....Pages 15-21
Theory of Meaning: Dummett’s Canonical Framework....Pages 22-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Varieties of Tone....Pages 33-39
Frege’s Hints and Colors....Pages 40-46
Active vs. Passive Voice and Nominative-Dative Transformations....Pages 47-50
Onomatopeia, Assonance, and Alliteration....Pages 51-52
Dialect, Subject, and Style Labels....Pages 53-64
‘Perspiration’ and ‘Sweat’....Pages 65-66
‘Dead’ and ‘Deceased’....Pages 67-69
‘Doggie’ and ‘Bunny’....Pages 70-71
Poetic Language....Pages 72-74
The Adverbs ‘Still’, ‘Already’, and ‘Yet’....Pages 75-81
Conjunctions and the Limits of Truth-Table Logic....Pages 82-86
Expressive Terms: Pejoratives and Honorifics....Pages 87-101
Evocatives: Profanity and Other Taboos....Pages 102-118
Funny Words: The Language of Humor....Pages 119-133
Interjections....Pages 134-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-148
Sentence Adverbs....Pages 31-31
Conducive Questions....Pages 149-164
Hyperonyms and Hyponyms....Pages 165-177
A Taxonomy of Tone....Pages 178-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-188
Tone and the Representational Character of Meaning....Pages 189-189
Shades of Sense....Pages 191-192
Towards a Comprehensive Formula....Pages 193-197
Theory of Meaning Revisited....Pages 198-221
Back Matter....Pages 222-232
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