Antonym(s):

• affective meaning
• connotation
• connotative meaning
• emotive meaning
• expressive meaning

Synonym(s):

• conceptual meaning
• denotation
• denotative meaning
• descriptive meaning
• referential meaning

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 200379-80
WALES 198987 (= denotational meaning, propositional meaning)
COLLINGE 1990148 (= propositional meaning)
NIDA 197525ff.
HARTMANN & STORK 197240
LYONS 1971448-449
RICHARDS etal. 1992101
LYONS 1977175, 197
MATTHEWS 199759
ELL5102

• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 
• COLLINGE, N. E. (1990) An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge.
• NIDA, Eugene. (1975) Componential Analysis of Meaning. The Hague: Mouton.
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
• MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Semantics