The phrase "semantic connotations" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the underlying meanings or associations of words and how they contribute to the overall meaning of a sentence. Example: The author's use of vivid imagery in the description of the abandoned house carries strong semantic connotations of sadness and decay.
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.
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.
These semantic-differential items measure connotations.
There is a clear resemblance between these connotations and the principal semantic components of language that emerged in our approach.
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.
(The title sonnet ends with some tragic, familiar names: "John Crawford. Eric Garner. Mike Brown"). Even as he reckons seriously with our state of affairs, Brown brings a sense of semantic play to blackness, bouncing between different connotations of words to create a racial doublespeak.
GI: General Inquirer: database of words and manually created semantic and cognitive categories, including positive and negative connotations [21].
