Book contents
- How Language Makes Meaning
- How Language Makes Meaning
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Examples
- Chapter 1 The Coin Toss
- Chapter 2 Deviance
- Chapter 3 Omission
- Chapter 4 Imprecision
- Chapter 5 Indirectness
- Chapter 6 Figurativeness
- Chapter 7 Language Play
- Chapter 8 THE Social Media
- Chapter 9 The Art of Language
- Chapter 10 The End Game
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - The Coin Toss
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
- How Language Makes Meaning
- How Language Makes Meaning
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Examples
- Chapter 1 The Coin Toss
- Chapter 2 Deviance
- Chapter 3 Omission
- Chapter 4 Imprecision
- Chapter 5 Indirectness
- Chapter 6 Figurativeness
- Chapter 7 Language Play
- Chapter 8 THE Social Media
- Chapter 9 The Art of Language
- Chapter 10 The End Game
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
One might wonder why a book about language and meaning intended for adults would open its first chapter with an epigraph of an old nursery rhyme written for children – and a sexist one at that.
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- How Language Makes MeaningEmbodiment and Conjoined Antonymy, pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019