The film explores the complexities of meaning in language, highlighting three types: denotative meaning (the literal reference of a word), conceptual meaning (the ideas associated with a word), and ...

The denotative and connotative meanings of words have experienced a distinct semantic shift in this age of our too much exposure to digital screen. Great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy says: “The more ...

Cet article pose des problèmes qui sont depuis longtemps sujets à controverse : les noms propres ont-ils un sens? Sont-ils des signes linguistiques? Pour tenter de répondre, un modèle est présenté ...

The semantic differentiation technique was used to investigate the structure of connotative meaning associated with each of seven stimulus concepts that are known to be important to the dating and ...

Your story on how the brain stores and organises words gave a fascinating glimpse into the neurological underpinning of category formation (5 January, p 10). It reminded me of the distinction, ...

Recently, at an English Language Teaching (ELT) workshop, I asked the participants to write some adjectives that they think are associated with the words ‘fat’ and ‘chubby’. The teacher participants ...