Bradley forgot that the whole meaning of a spatial or temporal description is not exhausted when attention is given to the connotations of the terms used; what has to be considered is the words as used in their context, which is that of a person who can indicate his position in space and time because of the fact that he is himself situated in space and time.
Although the word "environment" is synonymous with physical space, it also has social, emotional, and intellectual connotations, and the use of the concept with its all-embracing nature has been criticized [ 3].
There were a number of negative connotations associated to the use of intravaginal insertions.
This paper develops a theoretical model of regional land use transitions based on expanding and deepening the concept and connotations of land use transition.
The cultural connotations of public transport use in London differ from the rest of the UK, with private car use relatively low (Department for Transport 2007), particularly in the inner London boroughs, and bus use less clearly associated with marginalised transport users (King and Grayling 2001; Shaw, Mackinnon and Docherty 2009).
Health professionals were aware of the negative connotations of the term and only used it in medical notes.
While we have discussed the connotations of the two popular idioms used in describing diabetes in Bafut, there are other indigenous terms and descriptions that are nowadays fading from use as the following quote illustrates: Diabetes was called yoongkee and ki-yoongkee.
The connotations of use, however, are distinctive: charts for navigation purposes (nautical and aeronautical), plats (in a property-boundary sense) for land-line references and ownership, and maps for general reference.
The importance of specific language terms and the resulting connotations of words used for specific patient populations are however acknowledged [ 17]; Abramsky and Fletcher [ 17] concluded that the choice of words used to inform members of the public about prenatal diagnostic counselling may significantly affect how a genetic condition or risk is perceived.
It is no longer an oddity to encounter challenging questions of the social, cultural, political and economic connotations of digital technology use in higher education.
