Connotation and Meaning

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List of contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Chapter II The Emergence of the Problems of the Concept of Connotation: The Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter III The Incorporation of the Antithetical Pair Denotation-Connotation into Modern Logic: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter IV Other Tendencies: Meaning as Association of Ideas, Connotation as Association of Ideas, as Emotive Meaning and as the Creation of Concepts -- Part Two. On the Problem of Connotation in Linguistics -- Chapter V Delimitation of the Linguistic Sign and Limitations of Meaning as the Object of Study -- Chapter VI Connotation in Linguistics -- Chapter VII Instances of the Use of Connotation in Semiotics and Literary Criticism -- Chapter VIII Connotation: The Contrast between Systematic and Asystematic Facets in the Description of Meaning in Natural Languages -- Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter

Product details

• Authors: Beatriz Garza-Cuaron, Beatriz Garza-Cuarón
• Assisted by: Charlotte Broad (Translation)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9783110126709
• ISBN: 978-3-11-012670-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 24 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 574 g
• Illustrations: 18 b/w ill.
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics [AS]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics