Title: On Lexical Connotation and English Teaching
Abstract: This paper aims at applying lexicology, semantics and pragmatics to the analysis of the flexibility and indefinity and emotionality and open-ended property which lexical connotation shares to clarify the view that the connotation of a word, in English teaching, can be restricted, determined and comprehended according to textual context, paralinguistic context or non-linguistic context, In the meantime, to relate the important role a culture, especially, the common culture constituting part of the culture plays an important role helping students comprehend lexical connotation and the basic approach to the cultural acquisition, which promotes the cultivation of their cross-culture awareness.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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