Varieties of Tone

R. Kortum

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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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.

ISBN-13
9781137263537
ISBN-10
1137263539
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-11-15
Pages
258
Dimensions
143x216x21
Weight
464