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Strength of Meaning—Strong Words and a Certain Message?

Department of Health, Toxicology and Environmental Health Division, Hannibal House, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6TE

A.D. Dayan

Department of Health Department of Toxicology, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London, Dominion House, 59 Bartholomew Close, London, EC1 7ED, UK

The ability to convey specific meanings is important to scientists in their writing. However, difficulties arise when the ideas to be portrayed are judgemental. While extreme terms expressing strength of meaning are readily understood, more subtle ones appear not to be.

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 9, No. 1, 53-54 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/096032719000900112


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