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| Encyclopaedic Meaning project |
| Ideas from cognitive grammar |
| Base |
| Domain |
| Immediate scope |
| Profile |
| Scope of predication |
| Connotation |
| Denotation |
| Dictionary meaning |
| Encyclopaedic meaning |
| Frame semantics |
| Frame evocation |
| Framing |
| Highlighting |
| Semantic frame |
| Mental space theory |
| Structural semantics |
| Windowing of attention |
Denotation or denotative meaning is the relationship between a linguistic sign and its direct content, often considered the primary meaning of the sign. Denotation is considered to be of a referential nature. It is contrasted with connotation.
Denotation is also called dictionary meaning in cognitive linguistics and contrasted with encyclopaedic meaning.
Bibliography[]
- Chalker, Sylvia & Edmund Weiner (1994). The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press and BCA.