Meaning of diaconnotative | Babel Free

Definitions

Concerned with or relating to the ways in which a particular term may have different connotations in different situations.

not-comparable

Examples

“a diaconnotative usage label⟳”

“According to Hausmann (1977, Ch. 8), lexically relevant units can receive⟳ — typically by means of labels or usage notes — any or all of the following types of diasystematic marking: diachronic (e.g. archaic, neologism); diatopic (e.g. American English for elevator 'lift⟳', British English for loo); diaintegrative for foreign borrowings used in English (e.g. German for Weltanschauung); diastratic (e.g. informal for loo, formal for perambulator); diaconnotative (e.g. from Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (W9), often used disparagingly for dyke); diatechnical (e.g. law for tort, anatomy for clavicle; diafrequential (e.g. rare); dianormative (e.g. substandard for ain't).”

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