Related Term(s):

• affective meaning
• emotive meaning
• expressive meaning

Antonym(s):

• cognitive meaning
• denotation
• denotative meaning
• descriptive meaning
• referential meaning

Synonym(s):

• conceptual meaning
• connotation

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 2003287 (= affective meaning, emotive meaning, expressive meaning)
HARTMANN & STORK 1972138-139
Pike, K. 1967611 (connotational meaning)
FINCH 2000151-152
RICHARDS etal. 199278
WEINREICH 1980290-291

• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• PIKE, Kenneth L. (1967) Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, 2nd Ed. The Hague: Mouton.
• FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• WEINREICH, Uriel. (1980) On Semantics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Domain:

Semantics