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Cultural or emotional association
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ConnotationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Industrial metaverse towards Industry 5.0: Connotation, architecture, enablers, and challengesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Quantity implicaturesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Digital Twin-driven smart manufacturing: Connotation, reference model, applications and research issuesCited 1,551 times
- Go sideways: SynonymA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DenotationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A meaning of a word or phrase that is (subjectively) suggested or implied (implicit), as contrasted with a denotation, which is the explicit and objective meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
Noun The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, as contrasted with a denotation.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Digital Twin-driven smart manufacturing: Connotation, reference model, applications and research issues
Connotation and strategic role of in-situ conversion processing of shale oil underground in the onshore China
Defining Primary and Secondary Microplastics: A Connotation Analysis
The connotation of digital twin, and the construction and application method of shop-floor digital twin
Volume fracturing technology of unconventional reservoirs: Connotation, design optimization and implementation
“Exploring petroleum inside source kitchen”: Connotation and prospects of source rock oil and gas
Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems
Sensitivity to lexical denotation and connotation in brain-damaged patients: A double dissociation?
🆕 Influential since 2022
Industrial metaverse towards Industry 5.0: Connotation, architecture, enablers, and challenges
Global energy transition revolution and the connotation and pathway of the green and intelligent energy system
Coal-rock gas: Concept, connotation and classification criteria
Multidimensional measurement of the High-Quality development of city Clusters: Dynamic Evolution, regional differences and trend forecasting--based on the basic connotation of Chinese-style modernization
Urban shrinkage: Connotation-sinicization-framework of analysis
📚 Books worth reading
Quantity implicaturesBart Geurts · 2010- 📕La connotaciónBeatriz Garza Cuarón · 1978
- 📕Semantics of EvaluativityJessica Rett · 2014
Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and PresuppositionsSalvatore Pistoia-Reda, Filippo Domaneschi · 2017
Implit︠s︡itnostʹ v i︠a︡zyke i rechiE. G. Borisova · 1999- 📕Intonation and MeaningDaniel Büring · 2016
- 📕Kontensivno-mentalingvisticheskie osnovy konnotat︠s︡iiV. A. Buldakov · 2007
- 📕Les mots de hasardMireille Best · 1980
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