Open AccessConnotation, Semantic Prosody, Syntagmatic Associative Meaning: Three Levels of Meaning?
Author(s) -
Dušan Gabrovšek
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.4.1-2.9-28
Subject(s) - syntagmatic analysis , denotation (semiotics) , meaning (existential) , associative property , linguistics , connotation , psychology , semantics (computer science) , prosody , word (group theory) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , computer science , communication , semiotics , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , psychotherapist , programming language
The paper discusses associative meaning, i.e. one existing over and above the customary denotation, specifically the type arising from a text segment larger than a single word. The idea is of fairly recent origin, focuses on negative and positive semantic effects, and stems from corpus-based findings. Dictionaries are uneven in their treatment of this aspect of meaning. It is suggested that research on this complex phenomenon of associative meaning might be conducted on any of three levels: single-word items (connotation), multiword items (semantic prosody), and broader if vaguer co(n)text (syntagmatic meaning)