connotational

connotational

(ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃənəl)
adj
of, relating to, or involving connotation
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Adj.1.connotational - of or relating to a connotation
connotative - having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit
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Connotational codes relate images to their realities outside the abstract represented in the images.
In this case, the compounding has added connotational meaning with the analogy of the relationship between son and mother.
They are constituted together with connotational attributes that represent a full emotional connection, generated via the bunch of ideologically associated thematic ingredients (Ion, 2015) and figures of speech.
This, it might be said, is the story of news, its connotational function: it is about cohesion-making as much as it is about information-transmission.' (cited by Dahlgren and Sparks, 1993, p.202).
Wolfram von Soden (1952: 109) noted that "many verbs in ventive form occur only with pronominal objects"--a situation that in general resembles that described in this paper, and which specifically resembles the distribution of the energic in Qur'anic Arabic (see Table 2)--and that "a connotational difference between the indicative and ventive is not easy to establish." Furthermore, in Babylonian the 1SG pronoun object -ni is nearly always suffixed to the ventive suffix, neutralizing the contrast between ventive and indicative altogether.
EFL students may use these verbs on their literal "denotation" level confusing the "connotational" and idiomatic dimensions.
Another researcher, Partington (1998), defined semantic prosody as "the spreading of connotational coloring beyond single word boundaries" (p.
The linguistic message operates on two levels: denotational, and connotational. The coded iconic message is the totality of all of the messages that are connoted by the image itself: The non-coded iconic message is simply the literal "what it is" of the image.
Partington, who defines semantic prosody as "the spreading of connotational meaning beyond single word boundaries" (1998: 68), clearly sees the connotational meanings involved as "favourable or unfavourable" (1998: 66), and this is also true of later discussion (Partington 2004).
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