Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. On the Origins of the Problem
5. Chapter I The Origin of the Problem and of the Term Connotation: The Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Century 7
6. Chapter II The Emergence of the Problems of the Concept of Connotation: The Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century 41
7. Chapter III The Incorporation of the Antithetical Pair Denotation-Connotation into Modern Logic: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 61
8. Chapter IV Other Tendencies: Meaning as Association of Ideas, Connotation as Association of Ideas, as Emotive Meaning and as the Creation of Concepts 91
9. Part Two. On the Problem of Connotation in Linguistics
10. Chapter V Delimitation of the Linguistic Sign and Limitations of Meaning as the Object of Study 119
11. Chapter VI Connotation in Linguistics 153
12. Chapter VII Instances of the Use of Connotation in Semiotics and Literary Criticism 183
13. Chapter VIII Connotation: The Contrast between Systematic and Asystematic Facets in the Description of Meaning in Natural Languages 207
14. Bibliography and Abbreviations 251
15. Index of Names 269
16. Index of Subjects 277
17. Backmatter 287