Talk:Connotation and denotation
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I have seen some papers on linguistics and computational liguistics, in which there are quite different definitions for connotation and denotation. According to these papers, denotation means the literal meaning of a word, while cannotation means the implied meaning. I am really confused. Are the two pairs of definitions the same? --Charlemagn 14:25, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
No. There are two clearly distinct pairs of definitions. The one given in the article is that used by philosophers of language, logicians, and, I believe, many linguists. It is synonymous with the logician's technical terminology intension and extension.
The distinction you refer to is completely independent of this one. It is used by, as you say, many linguists (or perhaps I should be distinguishing branches of linguistics rather than individual linguists, however cunning), by many less formal fields of study of communication (media studies, communication) I believe, and is the one in common informal usage. (It is, for example, the kind of thing that will be of no interest at all to most logicians).
From where I'm sitting, there is no difference between connotation and denotation, and sense and reference. Who says there is? 128.239.171.176 (talk) 19:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
