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Semantic structure of a word (Prof. I.V.Arnold) consists of DENOTATIVE and CONNOTATIVE meanings.
Semantic structure of a word (I.V. Arnold)
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The emotive component (usual or occasional) of the connotative meaning of a word is its capacity to evoke or directly express emotions. It is called emotive charge, emotive connotation or colouring: Oh! Why! Hell! Here she is, poor little lamb, with her bags all packed. (M.Dickens). “She was a thin, frail little thing, and her hair which was delicate and thin was bobbed”. (D.) I feel so darned lonely. (Gr.Green).:
I have a lot of time. Hyperbole He has heaps of time. He’s got bags of money. Evaluative components: (Negative or positive attitude, approval or disapproval): Time – tested method :: out-of-date method “Politics … is only the art to reach high position; wisdom is the art to get power, wealth, position”/H.Fielding/. Expressive component intensifies the denotative or connotative meaning (emotions and feelings): “He is ever such a clever man” Stylistic component (foregrounding) is characteristic of particular styles or spheres of communication (official: red-tape cliches, scientific, informal, colloquial: slang, jargon, etc). Contextual meaning of words: “When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table”. /G. Eliot/. Offspring Infant
Brat An opposition is a relationship of partial difference between two partially similar elements of the language.
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“My children, my defrauded, swindled infants!” cried Mr. Renvings /D/. Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1959
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