1. DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION UNIT 3 THEME 4

2. WHAT CHANGES THE MEANING OF THESE WORDS?

3. CONTEXT synonyms: circumstances, conditions, surroundings, factors, state of affairs;surroundings ContextEtymology: Latin “con” together “texere” weave ˈ k ɒ nt ɛ kst/ noun 1.the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood. "the proposals need to be considered in the context of new European directives“ 2. the parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning. "skilled readers use context to construct meaning from words as they are read"

4. DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION Denotation Connotation The dictionary definition of a word or words The emotional assosiations of a word

5. GIVE THE DENOTATIONS AND CONNOTATIONS OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS monsterpet examinationmarriage

6. OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY Objective Language Unbiased Factual Impartial Unemotional Subjective Language Biased Partial Emotional Opinion based Emotive DenotationConnotation

7. WHERE WOULD YOU FIND DENOTATIVE LANGUAGE?

8. WHERE WOULD YOU FIND CONNOTATIVE LANGUAGE?

9. DIFFERENT CULTURES, DIFFERENT CONNOTATIONS WHICH OTHER FACTORS AFFECT CONNOTATIONS

10. REFER TO HORNE AND HEINEMANN PAGES 157 -161 Explain the difference in meaning of the highlighted words as they appear in each of the following pairs of sentences 1. The intelligence of the child was evident in his advanced mathematical ability. We received military intelligence that troops were sent to the border region. 2. Mix one measure of milk powder to three measures of water. The government took strong measures to stop the spread of the disease. Now make up two sentences of your own in which you use the word” patient” in two completely different contexts, so as to bring out the differences in meaning.