It draws attention to the semantic connotations and analogies by means of which visual technologies of government mediate between broader programmatic ideas and the practices of local users.
The most frequently heard word in the bar is "malakas". Let's just say this is a word with a wide range of semantic connotations, many of them connected with the sin of onanism.
Based on Link's interdiscourse theory, we argue that risk matrices 'speak to' the user and work as application templates for processes of identification through semantic connotations and analogies that go far beyond concerns with precise measurement and mathematically correct manipulation of risk-related data.
Each meaningful word, considered without any context, is characterized by a set of semantic connotations [1].
The semantic connotations that were lost by the transition from "passions" and "affections" to "emotions" in theories of the human mind can all be grouped together under the unifying theme of pathology: cognitive, medical, or moral (Dixon, 2006, 2011).
Now to the deliciously complex geopolitical connotations and semantic shadings of the word.
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.
The Mahabharata continues in this semantic range, only with the added connotation of "dispute".
A potential practical application of the described semantic map consists of specifying the connotation as well as the general meaning (denotation) of words.
There is a clear resemblance between these connotations and the principal semantic components of language that emerged in our approach.
