OFF: Linguistics

[Mark Edmonds]

From: Mark Edmonds
Date: 1999-03-24 13:16

Anyone care to explain that in English please?!?! ;-)

Mark (the zone of my signification is not encrusted!)


>Hmm, i trid to avoidoid it for this long but can last no longer;
<snip>
>Now, at a surface level they are but if we accept Roland Barthes'
>distinction between denotation and connotation then they do both denote
the
>same concept, however what they connote is entirely different. Given
that,
>for Barthes, connotation is the zone of signification in which units of
>language (and other systems of signs) acquires additional encrustations
of
>meaning. It is, for example, the level of meaning at which ideology
operates
<snip>

>Andrew, self-appointed 'Pedant-Bastard of the Day'