Gavin McCutcheon, director of Dot Scot Registry, said: "Scotland and Scottishness conveys a whole range of positive connotations, which could not really be portrayed on the web before, but with a.scot domain there will be a new option anyone involved in Scottish business, arts and culture and others to identify themselves more clearly as Scottish to the online world.
Ockham's notion of concept acquisition and mental representation is developed as part of a very sophisticated theory of thought involving not only a theory of signification, but also a whole range of logico-semantic properties such as connotation and supposition.
But sometimes lost in the discussion of connotations are the wines themselves, so the wine panel decided recently to take a closer look at Bordeaux, tasting 20 bottles from the 2008 vintage in a range of prices up to $100.
As far as I know it had no connotations for Dorril; indeed as I remembered it, the absence of connotations was part of is appeal".
We counted positive, neutral, and negative connotations associated with responses to each category to identify what kinds of connotations they had.
Learn more about the word "connotation" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary dictionary.
The label "constraint", which has a negative connotation (see earlier), is used here to refer to a range of techniques that allow the therapist to guide the patient towards forms of communication he or she might otherwise avoid.
For another, the melodic connotation of his drumming — notably with the guitarist Pat Metheny, in a range of settings — had seemed to foretell a compositional ken.
Simply invoking links between certain groups, places, or behaviours and negative connotations (such as a higher risk of contracting illness) can be stigmatising for many groups in society and therefore be responsible for a range of negative effects.
In order to see why, let us return briefly to the theory of connotation.[24] Connotation was described above in terms of primary and secondary signification.
