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Publication details [#45729]

Allan, Keith. 2007. The pragmatics of connotation. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (6) : 1047–1057.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | connotation | language use | meaning | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how connotations of language expressions are closely involved with appropriateness notions in language use, thus with pragmatic effect. It concludes that connotation constitutes a thoroughly pragmatic meaning category.