denotations

The contrast between emblematic visual denotations, which is what he took the hieroglyphics to be, and the misleadingly temporal and casually metaphorical connotations of ordinary written language, runs through many of the poem's notes, from his call for a "dignified pantomime" like the Eleusinian

Introduction 2006

Of course no ammo is allowed and everyone bring a gun must bring a can good for denotations.

On Sotomayor and Your Guns 2009

Let me put it this way, each word has unique semantic denotations and connotations, therefore for the banning of a word to infringe the freedom of speech it is only necessary to show that there exists some idea that cannot be expressed as well by other words, the unique idea expressed by the banned word itself suffices to provide an example.

The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds D.C. Registration Requirement, “Assault Weapon” Ban, Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines 2010

Of course no ammo is allowed and everyone bring a gun must bring a can good for denotations.

On Sotomayor and Your Guns 2009

The word lot has denotations of both inheritance and fate which point to his class-determined situation.

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

Her reading hinges on the word wasteful which she interprets as profligate, but devastating or destructive are more consistent denotations of wasteful, particularly in light of a subsequent passage which describes how the storm places all people on an equal playing field:

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

"Content", in its general use, is largely just an informal term for the sense encoded in a representative articulation, constructed from the denotations of its words and the grammatical relationships between them; it is the assertion being made as regards a subject (context in Jakobson's model).

Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Do you see any racial denotations or connotations?

School Board Chairwoman In Trouble For Telling It Like It Is | Manolith 2010

"Content", in its general use, is largely just an informal term for the sense encoded in a representative articulation, constructed from the denotations of its words and the grammatical relationships between them; it is the assertion being made as regards a subject (context in Jakobson's model).

Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

Let me put it this way, each word has unique semantic denotations and connotations, therefore for the banning of a word to infringe the freedom of speech it is only necessary to show that there exists some idea that cannot be expressed as well by other words, the unique idea expressed by the banned word itself suffices to provide an example.

The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds D.C. Registration Requirement, “Assault Weapon” Ban, Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines 2010