Sentence examples for linguistic connotation from inspiring English sources

Many East Enders are 'Cockneys', although this term has both a geographic and a linguistic connotation.

In all tasks, we used capital letters as stimuli instead of whole sentences in order to avoid linguistic connotations.

IT may seem marketing gold, but Big Data also carries a darker connotation, as a linguistic cousin to the likes of Big Brother, Big Oil and Big Government.

It's worth noting that the very phrase "right to work," with its positive connotations, constitutes a linguistic coup for the right.

Granted, "racism" has unique connotations in India, which is beset with starker linguistic, caste and communal divisions, but the overarching point stands: seeking to represent "authentic" Indian beauty abroad continues to be an exclusionary enterprise.

Finally, in the realm of connotations, we have access to those broader intellectual, linguistic, and disciplinary frameworks within which keywords function.

Mr. Wellman is an ardent teaser, a writer who always delights in glancing off literal meaning and often in linguistic deconstruction, employing words, parts of words, their sounds, their denotations and connotations in jazzy cacophony.

As a consequence, the objective meanings of language, defined in dictionaries as invariant regardless of users, also bear subjective connotations for language users due to their unique histories of linguistic experience, even though for practical purposes of communication they are able to set aside such differences.

But how did we get ourselves into this linguistic conundrum, wherein the two most viable pronouns for women are respectively infantilizing and rife with domestic, subservient connotations?

"Basement has an ugly connotation".

The proper connotation is Joe Sixpack.