Titlebook: Varieties of Tone; Frege, Dummett and t Richard D. Kortum Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013 bib

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Active vs. Passive Voice and Nominative-Dative Transformationsks after the difference in meaning between ‘Scott wrote .’ and ‘. was written by Scott’, an otherwise competent English speaker might be hard pressed for an answer. Possibly, as Katz maintains, the two sentences are perfectly synonymous (1968: 473). Frege, however, claims that they aren’t identical

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Onomatopeia, Assonance, and Alliteration ‘slithers and hisses in the grasses’, where the element of onomatopoeia is heard, one must ask whether there is anything to its meaning over and above whatever descriptive content it contains. Again, I answer this in the negative. Doubtless, prominent repetition of the ‘s’ sound imparts in some sen

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‘Perspiration’ and ‘Sweat’mmence’, and ‘begin’. To see how this might be done, let’s consider one of Frege’s most frequently cited examples of ., the pair ‘sweat’ and ‘perspiration’. It is often remarked, usually in jest, that a horse sweats, a man perspires, and a woman glows. Though neither Frege nor Dummett says which of

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‘Dead’ and ‘Deceased’dy’, ‘., ‘rabbit’—‘bunny’, ‘womb’—‘uterus’, ‘enemy’—‘foe’, and ‘politician’—‘statesman’. Dummett’s inclusion of this last pair strikes me as rather surprising; perhaps it is merely overly hasty. The difference in meaning between ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’ is sufficiently large-grained to effect a

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‘Woman’ and ‘Lady’ and ,’ and ‘,’ew ‘lady’ in certain contexts merely as a polite synonym for ‘woman’. Yet, it is precisely a difference in ‘sense’ that inclines one to think of ‘lady’ as a mere stylistic variant of ‘woman’. Both are comparable with reference to adult female persons. However, as compared with ‘woman’ — correlative

言行自由

Poetic Languagef discourse’ might also be thought broad enough to include a ‘literary style’, where this could encompasses not only variations along a formal—informal axis, but also such things as archaic, poetic, and generally recognized ‘literary’ expressions. Dictionary entries accompanied by the labels ‘poetic

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