3 words that have a Denotations meaning and Connotations meaning

Explanation:

Connotation and Denotation

Connotation and Denotation are two principal methods of describing the meanings of

words. Connotation refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that

most words naturally carry with them, whereas denotation is the precise, literal definition

of a word that might be found in a dictionary.

Cars of the 1960’s

Thunderbird, Falcon, Charger, Comet, Mustang, Barracuda.

Cars of the 1970’s

Rabbit, Pinto, Colt, Civic, Starlet, Gremlin.

Introduce the idea of connotation, defining it as the associations that people make with a

word. You can contrast connotation with the denotative value of a word, its more literal

meaning, and give an example of a word (such as "chicken")

Connotation is the emotional and

imaginative association surrounding a word.

Denotation is the strict

dictionary meaning of a word.

Visiting Seema Srivastava’s Argumentative Writing class recently, I witnessed a very useful

exercise for teaching students the difference between connotation and denotation. Under the

rubric of teaching students about Pathos, or appeal to emotion, in the Aristotelian

Pathos/Ethos/Logos triangle, she briefly described denotation as the literal meaning and

connotation as the emotional weight of a word, comparing cheap to inexpensive as an example.

She noted that non-native speakers often have difficulty with connotation, while native speakers

may use the words appropriately though unconsciously. She then presented students the

following groups of words and asked them to rank the words in order from positive to negative.

pandas are endangered because of habitat destruction by humans.

as of 2014 there were around 2,000 left, since then, it supposedly has risen 17%.

they are a very endangered species.

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