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things it is used to
refer to (a
second level of
meanings is
termed connotative). The
connotation of dog is (something like) four-legged
canine carnivore...
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broken up into five sub-types:
connotative, collocative, social,
affective and
reflected (Mwihaki 2004). The
connotative meanings of an
expression are...
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Comparative – When
multiple colors must be compared, such as with
mixing paint Connotative – When
colors are
given an
implicit meaning, such as red = stop Denotative...
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signify something connotatively, that is, with
reference to a
subject of inherence, i.e.,
after the
manner of accidents, they are
connotative, for example...
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confusion of color.
Connotative color schemes use
colors that
reference a
specific cultural meaning. Red and
green color schemes are
connotative of Christmas...
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synonymous depending on context.
Moving rightward through that order, the
connotative level of
holism decreases and the
level of
specificity (to
concrete instances)...
- In
linguistics and philosophy, the
denotation of a word or
expression is its
strictly literal meaning. For instance, the
English word "warm"
denotes the...
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serve the
needs of the community. A
second level of
meanings is
termed connotative.
These meanings are not
objective representations of the thing, but new...
- of the word "wretched". In the 2000s–2010s, the word
became loosely connotative of
denoting overt confidence, defiance, fervor, or
otherwise being descriptive...
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emotional ****ociations with the word, as
opposed to
literal denotation. The
connotative function of
profanity allows the
denotative meaning to
shift more easily...
