"disam" - 1 õppematerjal

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at all.  Metaphor 189 It is true that we are making very fine distinctions here. Someone might well deny that all the foregoing word uses actually differ in meaning, and it may be suggested that some of the differences are only of tone or of connota- tion. But when we ask, as a diagnostic, whether a sentence of the sort listed can simultaneously have more than one truth-value depending on disam- biguation, the answer is obviously yes. Kittay reminds us of Peggy Parish's children's books, whose main character, the housemaid Amelia Bedelia, is deaf to such variations. When asked to `dust the furniture', she uses a powder-puff to spread face powder on the furniture; when required to `draw the curtains', she produces a sketch of them; and when asked to `dress the chicken', she puts a miniature pair of trousers and shirt on a bird intended for that night's dinner.