Connotation

About: Connotation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2096 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8265 citations.

Self-awareness of Cultural Spirit in a Boundary Situation --- On Style and Peculiarity of Yuan-Dynasty Painting Arts

Abstract: Yuan Dynasty was an era with austere political reality and thinking reality. As a result of despisement to ruling of different races, a large majority of scholars in Yuan Dynasty chose seclusion without other choice, but the “internal beauty” they pursued was amazingly unanimous, which was, without doubt, owing to the spirit of the mountains and forests. When they tried to find enjoyment in painting, they put their willpower in it, which was a spontaneous awareness of cultural spirit and was, moreover, a peak experience of Chinese traditional culture. Achievement of Yuan Dynasty painting was impressive, and extended the aesthetic space of human beings. Thus, it enriched and development and manifestation connotation of landscape painting to a great extent, and would be engraved forever in the spiritual and cultural history of human beings.

On Adjectival Connotations

Abstract: Connotations are elusive semantic elements. Although they are often specific to individual speakers, many of them are sufficiently general to serve as general communicative elements. The paper suggests a device by means of which adjectival connotations, whether of the individual or the general type, can be pinpointed. The device is simply the sequence "[ADJ.sup.1] but not [ADJ.sup.2]", where [ADJ.sup.2] is seen to enrich the connotational semantics of [ADJ.sup.1]. Thus for example the use of a phrase like desirable but not essential may indicate that desirable normally contains an element of essential, though perhaps not in the situation where it is used. It is pointed out that [ADJ.sup.2] often represents an intensification of the semantic content of [ADJ.sup.1]. 1. Introduction In unreflected, untechnical language, words are often thought of as semantically monolithic. Strong "means" 'powerful', slow "means" 'not fast', loud "means" 'noisy', and similarly for the other word classes. Those are denotational meanings, describing the objective content of the word and in many ways the most important part of a word's semantic constitution. But in order to gain a more precise idea of what the writer or speaker wishes to convey it is necessary that the reader or hearer have some conception of the connotations surrounding the words used. Briefly put, connotations are the often emotional and/or personal associations that are linked with certain words in the linguistic world of the language user. It is the aim of this paper to show how connotations can be made visible within one linguistic domain, the adjectives. 2. Definitions The distinction between denotation and connotation, as the concepts are used now, goes ultimately back to John Stuart Mill, who distinguished "between the connotation, or understood meaning, of terms and the denotation, or real meaning". (1) According to Lyons (1977: 176), The reason why Mill chose the term 'connote' is clear enough. As he says him self, it is intended to suggest that what he calls the signification of the attributes of a subject is something additional to the signification, or denotation, of all the subjects which possess these attributes. Somewhat similar is the notion which under lies the non-philosophical use of the term 'connotation' according to which we might say, for example, that a particular word has a pleasant or desirable connotation. In this usage, the connotation of a word is thought of as a [sic] emotive or affective component additional to its central meaning. Although the definitions of other scholars vary a little, their essence is more or less the same: "The connotations of a word are those associations connected with a word-form that are emotional in character and which are not necessarily part of the definition of the word in question" (Warren 1988: 80), "CONNOTATION[S ...] are relevant [...] to social and stylistic aspects of meaning" (Allan 1992: 395), "LEXICAL CONNOTATIONS are semantic components that, without being part of the definition of [the headword] L, are ascribed to L by the language in question. Thus air connotes 'emptiness', because of the expression 'hot air', as in All this is hot air!" (Mel'cuk 1992: 334), "CONNOTATION. The personal and emotional associations which are suggested by words, and which thus form part of their meaning, for individual speakers" (Crystal 1992), "CONNOTATION. The emotive or affective component of a linguistic expression (such as style, idiolect, dialect, and emotional charge), which is superimposed upon its basic meaning and which--in contrast to the static conceptual meaning--is difficult to describe generally and context-independently" (Bussmann 1996). 3. Aims It is true that connotations are often personal and not shared with other speakers, but, "because people do have some common experiences, many lexemes in the language have connotations which would be shared by large groups of speakers" (Crystal 1995: 171). …

Sociology of body

Abstract: This study analyzes the connotation of body in sociological study on the basis of post-modernism and sociological theories.The basic work and the methodology of M.Foucalt and P.Bourdieu,which lie on the construction of body in the sports sociological studies,are studied.

A New Developed Subject:Trenchless Technology

Abstract: This paper discusses the definition,connotation,research objective,purpose and the characteristics of the new developed subject—trenchless technology.The basic frame of this new subject is described.The author also points out the opportunities and challenges faced with the trenchless technology in China.

Integrity Education of Contemporary College Students : Connotation , Problem and Solution

Abstract: In the new situation of anti-corruption,college students are the backbone of society,the future successors of the career of the party and talents of high administrative levels of Party and government cadres of important source.Strengthening the integrity education of college students has an extremely important strategic and practical significance.At present,there are some problems,such as subjective consciousness being weak,the form being single,content and the students'psychological and social dislocation and implementation not being enough,long-term mechanism not being sound and so on.So we should try to strengthen the education pertinence countermeasures from the educational subject,educational content,and educational form of implementation.