connotative meaning

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connotative
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒn.ə.tə.tɪv/us
/ˈkɑː.nə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/
The connotative meaning of a word includes the feelings and ideas that people may connect with ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofconnotativeandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The results yielded three underlying dimensions of affective/connotativemeaning(evaluation, potency, and activity) that accounted for much of the variance in ratings.
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However, to my knowledge, there have been no child language studies investigating the acquisition of the evaluative component ofconnotativemeaningfrom discourse.
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Instead, it has been corpus linguists working with written text who have described the distribution ofconnotativemeaningacross multiple words.
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Aconnotativemeaningof a television would be that it is top of the line.
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Theconnotativemeaningis the products deep and hidden meaning.
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In general, music videos contain visuals that either represent the potentialconnotativemeaningof the lyrics or the visuals can represent a semiotic system of its own.
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Although words have both denotative and connotative meanings, there has been little research on the child's acquisition of connotations.
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Connotative meanings underpin metaphor as well as other creative and expressive ways in which scientists construct or defend knowledge.
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Connotative meanings are developed by the community and do not represent the inherent qualities of the thing or concept originally signified as the meaning.
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So when the addresser is planning the particular message, both denotative and connotative meanings will already be attached to the range of signifiers relevant to the message.
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But connotative meanings are context-dependent, i.e. the addressee must learn how to match the meaning intended by the addresser to one of the various possible meanings held in memory.
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Over time, each individual in the audience develops a cognitive framework of codes which will recall the denotative meaning and suggest possible connotative meanings for each signifier.
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