Connotative Meaning

Connotative Meaning

ContLeech defines connotative meaning as the communicative value an expression has by virtue of what it refers to, over and above its purely conceptual content (1981 : 12 ). The following examples illustrate the connotative meaning of words in the context of Indonesian Language.examplesWord Contextual MeaningGuru ( teacher ) Clever , impatient, poorPetani ( farmer ) Poor , stupid Pelajar ( student ) Lazy , stupid Pastor ( priest ) Chaste , pious, obedient, wise Dokter ( doctor ) Clever, rich Perawat ( nurse ) Patient Tentara ( soldier ) Brave Polisi ( policeman )Disciplined Presiden ( president ) Powerful, strict Pria ( man ) Macho , rational , strong , hard working, breadwinnerContIt means that connotative meaning is that something will be described with human being assumption as general or general sign.

Social MeaningThe social meaning of a word is in relation to the social circumstance of its use which is determined by the different social structures in the society. The member of a society are roughly divided into the lower class, the middle class and the upper class. In this case, the meaning of words is socially influenced by these classes of people in the society. Some example are :

House , home, residence, domicile, mansion, castle and palace.Yes , bastard ; yes, sir, yes your Excellency. Yes tour highness, yes your majesty.Waste basket, receptacle.Clothes , finery, attire.Man , personage Simply, someone with lower class status in their society will be different from someone in upper class status in many aspects, such as using words or sentences. Also, the speakers will differentiate their way of speaking and diction when they make communication with people in different class in society.

Affective Meaning

Leech (1981) in Wagiman (2008 :29) defines that affective meaning is the meaning of word which reflects the personal feelings of the speaker, including his attitude to the listener or his attitude to something he is talking about. The examples related to this definition are: Youre a vicious tyrant and a villainous reprobate, and I hate you. Im terribly sorry to interrupt, but I wonder if you would be so kind as to lower your voices a little is more polite than Will you belt up .The writer concludes that affective meaning is what the speaker talks about is what they feel based on personal feeling not all of human beings.

Conversion In conversion a new meaning of a word is obtained when the syntactic function of the word is converted or changed as when a noun is used as a verb or a verb is used as a noun. Syntactic features are features pertaining to the arrangement of the word in a phrase, a clause or a sentence. Some examples of conversion are: We are planning to wall our garden.My friend can house us if we do not wish to stay at a hotel.We have finished papering the dinning roomThe workers are begging rice Those workmen are roofing the new hotel.