Denotation,Connotation and Implication

                                            

 • Denotation and Connotation

 Denotation and Connotation are two principal methods of describing the meanings of words.

 1. Denotation (literal meanings) is the strict dictionary meaning of a word. Denotation is when you mean what you say, literally. Makna Denotasi sering di temukan di karya ilmiah.

 2. Connotation (suggestive meanings) is the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word.Connotation is created when you mean something else, something that might be initially hidden.

 Words may have positive or negative Connotation that depend upon the social, cultural and personal experiences of individuals. For example, the words childish, childlike and youthful hane the same denotative but different connotative meanings. Childish and childlike have a negative connotation as the they refer to immature behavior of e person. Whereas, youthful implies that a person is lively and energetic. Makna konotasi sering ditemukan di karya satra.

 For example:

 1. both "woman" and "chick" have the denotation "adult female" in North American society, but "chick" has somewhat negative connotations, while "woman" is neutral.

2. You may live in a house, but we live in a home. If you were to look up the words house and home in a dictionary, you would find that both words have approximately the same meaning- "a dwelling place." However, the speaker in the sentence above suggests that home has an additional meaning. Aside from the strict dictionary definition, or denotation, many people associate such things as comfort, love, security, or privacy with a home but do not necessarily make the same associations with a house. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of a home? of a house? Why do you think that real-estate advertisers use the word home more frequently than house? The various feelings, images, and memories that surround a word make up its connotation. Although both house and home have the same denotation, or dictionary meaning, home also has many connotations.

 • Implication

This is meaning which a speaker or writer intends but does not communicate directly. Where a listener is able to deduce or infer the intended meaning from what has been uttered, this is known as (conversational) implicature. Example: Utterance: “A bus!” → Implicature (implicit meaning): “We must run.”

• Conclusion

Dalam bahan yang saya bahas, saya menyimpulkan bahwa makna Denotasi adalah makna sebenarnya. Sedangkan makna konotasi adalah makna kiasan. Contohnya , sebuah symbol yang berbentuk mawar merah ;kalau di makna denotasi, mawar merah dengan batang hijau.sedangkan di konotasi, bunga mawar ini mewakili rasa cinta terhadap seseorang. Connotasi terbagi menjadi dua,yaitu; positive (sopan) dan negative (kasar). Contoh nya; Gugur (positive), Mampus (negative) yang makna nya sama. Denotasi sering ditemukan di karya ilmiah sedangkan konotasi serin ditemukan di karya sastra. Implication adalah makna yang disampaikan secara tidak langsung ,dimana pendengar langsung mengerti tanpa dijelaskan. Contoh nya; Utterance:”minyak habis” (implicit meaning) “sesudah lampu merah” Maksudnya adalah, seseorang datang mendorong motor dan berkata “minyak saya habis”, lawan bicara menjawab “sesudah lampu merah”. Jadi, seseorang yang kehabisan minyak tadi tanpa bertanya dimana pom bensi, si lawan pembicara sudah mengerti. Implication sering di temui disebuah pecakapan.