Connotation and Meaning

Beatriz Garza-Cuarón, Charlotte Broad

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110126709
• eBook ISBN: 9783110867916
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Part One On the Origins of the Problem
• Chapter I The Origin of the Problem and of the Term Connotation: The Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Century
• Background
• Aspects of the Theory of the Proprietates Terminorum
• William of Ockham’s Concept of Connotation
• Ockham’s Theory of Signs
• Ockham’s Doctrine as a Starting Point for the Demarcation of the Problem of Connotation
• The Modus Adiacentis, or Mode of Adherence, in Thomas of Erfurt’s Speculative Grammar
• Chapter II The Emergence of the Problems of the Concept of Connotation: The Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
• Background
• The Substantive-Adjective Distinction Upheld
• The Usage and Meaning of Connotation in the Port-Royal Grammaire and Logique
• The Introduction of the Concepts of Comprehension and Extension
• The Additional Meaning of Words: Accessory Ideas and Affective Nuances
• Chapter III The Incorporation of the Antithetical Pair Denotation-Connotation into Modern Logic: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• James Mill: The Inversion of the Mediaeval Usage of the Meaning of Connotation
• John Stuart Mill: The Introduction of Denotation and Connotation into Logic
• The Passage of Denotation and Connotaion into Twentieth Century Logic
• The Development of the Concept of Connotation in Mathematical Logic
• Examples of Distinctions Concerning the Concepts of Denotation and Connotation
• Chapter IV Other Tendencies: Meaning as Association of Ideas, Connotation as Association of Ideas, as Emotive Meaning and as the Creation of Concepts
• John Locke: The Speaker and the Hearer in English Empiricism
• Ogden and Richards: The ‘Triangular’ Delimitation of Meaning
• Marshall Urban’s Connotations
• The Possible Origin of the View of Connotation as ‘Additional Meaning’
• The Technical Usage of Connotation in Experimental Psychology
• Part Two On the Problem of Connotation in Linguistics
• Chapter V Delimitations of the Linguistic Sign and Limitations of Meaning as the Object of Study
• The Major Philosophical Distinctions
• The Usage of Logical and Grammatical Suppositions in Linguistics
• A Further Limitation to the Study of Meaning: Lexicology
• Stephen Ullmann’s Adaptation of the Ogden-Richards Triangle
• Kurt Baldinger’s Opinion of the Triangle Theory
• The Invalidity of the Triangle Theory in Linguistic Semantics
• Klaus Heger’s Trapeze
• A Misinterpretation of Saussure’s Course: The So-called Consubstantiality or Solidarity of the Sign
• Katz and Fodor. An Example far from the Triangle Tradition
• Chapter VI Connotation in Linguistics
• Bloomfield’s Understanding of Connotation and His Conception of Meaning
• Hjelmslev: Connotation, Connotators, and Connotative Semiotics
• Mounin’s Study of Connotation
• Martinet: Cultural and Aesthetic Connotations
• Greimas’s Treatment of Connotation as the ‘Sociology of Common Sense’
• Pottier: The Virtueme and Connotation
• Gary-Prieur’s Classifications
• Prieto: Style and Connotation
• Further Uses of Connotation
• Chapter VII Instances of the Use of Connotation in Semiotics and Literary Criticism
• Eco’s Use of Connotation in Semiotics
• Cohen and Barthes: Connotation in Literary Criticism
• Kerbrat Orecchioni’s Views on Connotation
• Chapter VIII Connotation: The Contrast between Systematic and Asystematic Facets in the Description of Meaning in Natural Languages
• Meaning and Connotation: Problems
• Three Significant Distinctions Derived from Philosophy
• Classification of Problems Arising from the Opposition between Denotation and Connotation
• Group 1. Primary or Unique Meaning versus Secondary or More than one Meaning
• Group 2. Cognitive Meaning versus Other Kinds of Meaning
• Group 3. Direct Reference versus Indirect Reference
• Group 4. Fixed Meaning versus Variable or Free Meaning
• Group 5. Homogeneous or Systematic Information versus Heterogeneous or Asystematic Information
• Group 6. Central or Essential Information versus Additional, Secondary, or Complex Information: Style
• Group 7. Literal Meaning versus Metaphoric or Figurative Meaning
• Group 8. A Synchronic View of Meaning versus a Diachronic View of Meaning
• Group 9. Linguistic Meaning versus Non-linguistic Meaning
• Final Remarks
• Bibliography and Abbreviations
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects