Antonym(s):

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

Related Term(s):

• connotation
• connotative meaning

Synonym(s):

• emotive meaning
• expressive meaning

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 200314, 287 (= attitudinal meaning, connotative meaning)
WALES 198914
HARTMANN & STORK 19726
RICHARDS etal. 199278
LYONS 1977175

• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• 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.

Domain:

Semantics