Sentence examples for connotative language from inspiring English sources

My argument is therefore that nothing less than the abolition of the highly connotative language of morality will suffice to get us thinking clearly about how to live — the purview of ethics.

Connotative language indexes a cluster of loosely associated images, schema and feelings about an experience that is particularly salient to an individual.

For example, saying that one's energy has changed following a CAM treatment would be an example of connotative speech indexing a set of associations and feeling states.

Furthermore it was shown that Ockham did in fact hold that there are simple connotative terms in mental language.

Martin (1992: 405) describes genre and register as connotative semiotics, realised by language, image and other modalities as denotative semiotics (after Hjelmslev).

In view of recent scholarship, though, it appears highly doubtful that Ockham's purpose really was to use nominal definitions to eliminate all simple connotative terms from mental language.

Accordingly, dictionaries should help to sort out the main and connotative meanings of the words because languages were born out of the necessities to express the existence of objects.

He noted that "intuitive cognition" was a connotative term, connoting both a kind of quality, which is cognition, and the cognized object as it exists and is present in itself.

Figure 11 Context and language interpreted as connotative and denotative semiotics.

I hear: "I surely mean well, and I make a completely valid point about connotative meaning in a living language.

Originally, the SDM was used to explore the connotative meaning of words by asking respondents to rate their understanding of a particular word or idea on a scalar continuum between two opposite or polar adjectives.