Demotative and Connotative Words Depend on their origins. Whether a term’s usage entails a positive, negative or neutral emotional charge depends upon its context wrap and whoever receives it and how it is interpreted by its recipients. How is semiotics matters said: signal, transmit, receive. Most every modifier word affords with emotional valence potentials, many verbs and nouns, too. The verb, is a powerful form of adjective.

Odd to note that many otherwise neutral phrases might imply sexual topics or allude to intoxication, for examples. Also, “dog whistles” appears superficially innocent and neutral, though are nefarious comments addressed through cognitively coded methods to specific factions of an audience. When the sound of a whistle is low it will become invisible to humans. However, dogs can hear it only with limited frequency. Speaking of valence charged innuendoes as derived from an otherwise neutral denotation. A dysphemism, as opposed to, say, a euphemism.

Synecdoche refers to a whole through one of its parts or of material or of a process. All hands On Deck, contains the synecdoche “hands” that refers to the crew, its laborer extremes. Compare to its congruent figure of speech metonymy: an attribute refers to a whole. Fiery heads take home the prize for a cakewalk in London. He is a nerd, with red head and fiery personality. Typically by way of humor, fiery is a condition most people don’t recognize; it is an addiction.

Are there any similar language groupings referred to as hypernyms and hyponyms, or some classification of words similar to them? Class, classy, classical, classify, classed, etc. , entail some classification similarities and other denotations and connotations thereof are of unrelated classes.