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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A form of the semantic differential was administered to 8 groups of fifth-grade children who differed in their test-anxiety status, sex, and in the condition under which they were administered the ...