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Varieties of Tone

Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning

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  • © 2013

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  1. Richard D. Kortum

    1. East Tennessee State University, USA

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-7

  3. Historical Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Historical Preliminaries

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      Pages 11-14

    3. Frege’s Ingredients of Meaning

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      Pages 15-21

    4. Theory of Meaning: Dummett’s Canonical Framework

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      Pages 22-30

  4. Varieties of Tone

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Varieties of Tone

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      Pages 33-39

    3. Frege’s Hints and Colors

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      Pages 40-46

    4. Active vs. Passive Voice and Nominative-Dative Transformations

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      Pages 47-50

    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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      Pages 65-66

    8. ‘Dead’ and ‘Deceased’

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      Pages 67-69

    9. ‘Doggie’ and ‘Bunny’

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      Pages 70-71

    10. ‘Woman’ and ‘Lady’ and ‘Vous’ and ‘Tu’

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      Pages 72-74

    11. Poetic Language

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      Pages 75-81

    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
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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.

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  • East Tennessee State University, USA

    Richard D. Kortum

About the author

Richard Kortum is Associate Professor of Philosophy at East Tennessee State University, USA. He was educated at Duke University, Cambridge University, and Oxford University where he received his D.Phil. in philosophy of language under Sir Michael Dummett.

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