denotation trumped connotation

Polish translation: symbole wzięły górę nad skojarzeniami

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English term or phrase:denotation trumped connotation
Polish translation:symbole wzięły górę nad skojarzeniami
Entered by: DorotaLondon

17:56 Jul 16, 2012
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English term or phrase: denotation trumped connotation
Sometime in the fourth millennium BC, writing and mathematical measurement emerged in human culture and with it the idea of cosmic order. With this magnificent intellectual achievement, ultimately leading to our twenty-first-century ability to use computers and at least try for the stars, came the rise of concepts of civil order, and allegorical identifications began to be taken seriously. Probably for the first time, mythology, which had coalesced with reality yet was immediate in its individual and communal interpretation, became codified with institutional agendas. A system was formed that took advantage of and enslaved the primitive by attempting to abstract the mental deities from their objects; as Blake has observed, “Men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.” Thus began the priesthood. Metaphors were misread and misplaced, denotation trumped connotation, the messenger was mistaken for the message, and life and thought were thrown off balance.
DorotaLondon
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symbole wzięły górę nad skojarzeniami
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Mam nadzieję, że niczego nie pokręciłem.
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Grzegorz Mizera
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Inaczej: denotacje przebiły konotacje
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3symbole wzięły górę nad skojarzeniami
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Denotation and Connotation - Dosłowność a metafora
Jerzy Matwiejczuk

  

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symbole wzięły górę nad skojarzeniami


Explanation:
Mam nadzieję, że niczego nie pokręciłem.

Grzegorz Mizera
Estonia
Local time: 15:52
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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Inaczej: denotacje przebiły konotacje
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Reference: Denotation and Connotation - Dosłowność a metafora

Reference information:
Denotation refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition."¨ For example, if you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions."
Connotation, on the other hand, refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the denotative meanings. The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.

Jerzy Matwiejczuk
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