Connotation, Semantic Prosody, Syntagmatic Associative Meaning: Three Levels of Meaning?
The paper discusses associative meaning, i.e.one existing over and above the customary denotation, specifically the Backpack 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 treatmen