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It is important to learn both the denotation and connotation associated with new vocabulary.

Both "girl" and "babe" have the denotation "female" in our society, but "babe" can carry somewhat negative connotations, whereas "woman" is neutral.

dense Such affirmation, which would, I think, be ordinarily made by Hedonists, obviously implies that the meaning of the two terms is different, however closely their denotation may coincide.

Well, it means that in the culture of these other languages, the denotation of family relationships is more important than it is in English.

Then, too, there have been the campaigners who have gone to what some regard as opposite extremes: if the head of a committee is known to be a man or a woman, then chairman or chairwoman must surely be the proper denotation, if the sex of the person is not known, then chairperson , though awkward-sounding, is the preferred form.

That is, if you are going to say something about people, then avoid using the word man (for example) because, regardless of the ancillary definitions one might find in the dictionary, in its most common meaning and use it denotes `male' and the strong connotations of that denotation are carried over to all other applications of the word: it is not, in fact, as neutral as some believe it to be.

Vulgar still carries the strong denotation exemplified in the first (hence the most frequently encountered) sense, “characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation .

In modern dialogue, which in no sense approaches the gentility of the perfumed puritanicals, the denotation of unmentionables has broadened to include body organs, curses, and biological functions.

14] The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation, that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc.

I can conclude only that that communicative intention is used to mean both denotation and connotation: but if that is so, then it would seem that the contrast implicit in euphemism is lost.

( Cape Colored -or, more properly, Coloured -is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.

Because of frequent and ironic use, however, the proverb changed its denotation to the opposite in Standard German.




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