Meaning without content: on the metasemantics of register

What, exactly, is the difference between words such as ‘dead’ and ‘deceased’? In this paper, I argue that differences in register, or style, ought to be construed genuine non-truth-conditional meaning. also show register cannot plausibly accounted for terms of either presupposition conventional implicature. Register is, rather, an instance what call pure use-conditional case a meaning does not correspond contents speakers intend convey.