Encyclopaedic meaning

Encyclopaedic meaning is the "indirect", non-referential, additive meaning of a sign pertaining to encyclopaedic knowledge of the world. Often encyclopaedic meaning is central to the understanding of that sign even though it is not traditionally considered to be a linguistic type factor. Encyclopaedic meaning overlaps with the notions of connotation, semantic frame, and several concepts relating to scope of predication.