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 2 - Deviance
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
Some years ago while working late at my house in Wisconsin, in the United States, where I lived at the time, I made a phone call to a local sandwich restaurant to order a takeaway meal. The restaurant was small and locally owned – run by a family.
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- How Language Makes MeaningEmbodiment and Conjoined Antonymy, pp. 19 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019