NOTE ON CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION

Denotation and connotation in the human - computer interface: The 'Save as ...' command

This paper presents a semiotic technique as a means of exploring meaning and understanding in interface design and use. This is examined through a study of the interaction between the ‘file’ metaphor and ‘save as’ command metaphor. The behaviour of these (from a functional or computational basis) do not exactly match, or map onto, the meaning of the metaphor. We examine both the denotation of a...

Denotation and Connotation in Strategic International Human Resource Management: Can We All Speak and Teach the Same Language?

the effects of cognitive strategies- note making and underlining- on iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension

هدف از انجام این مطالعه ، بررسی اثرات استفاده از استراتژی های شناختی یعنی "نت برداری" و "زیر خط کردن" بر روی عملکرد درک مطلب زبان آموزان ایرانی می باشد. به این منظور، 60 زبان آموز دختر سال چهارم دبیرستان از طریق آزمون پیشرفت زبان انگلیسی (نلسون)، از یک جامعه آماری بزرگتر انتخاب شدند. سپس به صورت تصادفی به سه گروه که هر گروه شامل ?0 دانش آموز همسان بود، تقسیم شدند: دو گروه آزمایش(گروه "نت برداری...

Connotation Analysis

Language ambiguity as produced by humans, is often unnoticed and as such, is most of the times involuntary. In an original context, a sentence might be very clear with respect to the producer's intentions, but if it contains some unnoticed ambiguities (obliterated by the context), when put in another context, might convey a very different meaning, sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing.

Denotation by Sense and Reference

The notion of reference as entailment in the common ground provides a uniied framework for the treatment of denotation by names, deenite descriptions, and pronouns, including anaphors. Within this framework, semantic and pragmatic considerations are combined, giving two kinds of proof of denotation, by sense and by reference, for references to individuals which are and aren't already in the com...