The varieties of tone that I have surveyed have fed into a number of important issues in the theory of meaning. As we have seen, not all those promoted by Frege and by Dummett genuinely belong to semantics. Among those that do, not all can be accommodated by Dummett's gloss in terms of the signaling of a manner of speaking. Up to this point, my criticisms of Dummett's Frege-based, tripartite model have focused largely on two related flaws: the lack of fit with many ordinary sentencetypes, and the attendant lack of explanatory role for truth-conditionality with respect to many component words and other linguistic elements such as those that make for declarative, interrogative, and imperative form. The corollary that sameness and difference of meaning are explicable in terms of truth-conditions is also undermined by many near-synonyms for which this instrument is simply too blunt. In the following section I will examine a few cases that I think are especially illuminating in this respect.