connotational

This is a shift from denotational to connotational meanings.

Its connotational range includes love, sympathy, empathy.

There are also specialised connotational and ideological codes to reflect particular social, political, moral, and aesthetic values.

That was a scientific demonstration of the dynamics of connotational indices, and that is all it was.'

The use of synonyms and antonyms clarifies connotational choices as between, say, pejorative and euphemistic usages.

"R'heet, run a quick semantic analysis of that utterance, in the fourth and twelfth modes, with special attention to connotational resonances of the second category."

There are five types of sememes: two denotational and three connotational, with connotational occurring only in phrase units (they do not reflect the denotation):

When the audience receives the message, there will always be an excess of connotational meanings available to be applied to the particular signs in their context (no matter how relatively complete or incomplete their knowledge, the cognitive process is the same).

Since signs may have many levels of meaning from the denotational to the connotational, the addresser's strategy is to select and combine the signs in ways that limit the range of possible meanings likely to be generated when the message is interpreted.

Hence, the meanings as to health or illness are selected from the connotational framework which the interpreter has constructed through training and experience given that each possible state of well-being is represented by a cluster of symbolic attributes, one of which is the patient's temperature.

In a related example of connotational Fingerspitzengefuhl, when Newt said he expected to "grow" into the role of Speaker, a half-dozen of his conservative allies remonstrated with him: the Speaker-presumptuous told Time magazine he was informed that grow was "a code word for selling out."

But this argument equally means that no sign can be separated from both its denotational and connotational meanings, and, since the addresser is always using the sign for a particular purpose in a context, no sign can be divorced from the values of the addresser.