Volume 10, Summer 1984

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 10, Summer 1984
(University of Calgary, 1984-06) Grover, Cynthia; Hildebrand, Joyce; Taylor-Browne, Karen
This is the tenth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at the University of Calgary. These papers represent the current research in progress of students and faculty members and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. Appearance of papers in this volume does not preclude their publication in another form elsewhere.
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Connotations in translation: the names of animals in Alice in Wonderland as perceived by English and French speakers
(University of Calgary, 1984-06) Romney, Claude
Since Bloomfield (1933) first applied the terms denotation and connotation to the field of linguistics, it has become usual to distinguish between the denotative meaning of a word (the definition provided by a monolingual dictionary) and its connotative meaning, i.e., "that aspect of meaning which concerns the emotional attitude of the author and the emotional response of a receptor," according to Nida and Taber (1969:201). Connotations are sometimes termed "additional values" or even "secondary values," but linguists who have written on the theory of translation have all stressed the importance of conveying them from the source text into the target text (see Mounin (1963:166), Nida (1964:171), Nida and Taber (1969:98) and Ladmiral (1979:151 ff.)).