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1、ConnotationinTranslation：StableorChangeable　　湖北?t药学院　　【Abstract】Connotativemeaningisalwayswidelyusedinnotonlyliteraryworksbutalsoinourleaninganddailylife.Inthisessay，therewillbeadiscussionabouttheapplicationandmainfeaturesofconnotation.Theanalysisfocusonboththevarietyandstabilityo

2、fconnotativemeaningthroughacomparisonandcontrastbetweentwopoetryworks.　　【Keywords】connotation；translation；variety；stability　　Intermsofwordmeaning，therearemeaningsofallkingscomeintoourmindlikeconceptualmeaning，lexicalmeaning，grammaticalmeaning，andassociativemeaning.Buttoday，thefoll

3、owingpassagewillonlyfocusonthevarietyandstabilityofwords’associativemeanings，ormorespecific，connotativemeanings，astimeandknowledgelimited.　　Toformafull-scaleunderstandingofwhatisthe“associativemeaning”，firstofall，weneedtocatchthedefinitionofthe“conceptualmeaning”.Conceptualmeaning

4、isthemeaninggiveninthedictionaryandformsthecoreofwordmeaning.Fromthisdefinition，itisobviousthatconceptualmeaningisratherfixedandstable.Thus，conceptualmeaningisgenerallyusedindailycommunication，aswesharethecommonunderstandingofwords’conceptualmeaninglike“Mama”，“books”，“flower”or“ta

5、ble”.Onthecontrary，aword’sassociativemeaningisusuallychangeableandinconstantincorrespondencewiththespeaker’shabit，feeling，imagine，context，settingandmanyotherelements.AccordingtoDoctorZhangWeiyou’stheory，hereinthispassage，alltheseassociativemeaningswillbecategorisedintofouraspects，

6、namelyconnotativemeaning，stylisticmeaning，affectivemeaningandcollocativemeaning.Later，wewillmainlytalkabouttheconnotativemeaningasitiswildlyusedinnotonlyliteraryworksbutalsoinourdailylife.　　Whenwemention“associativemeaning”，mostly，wemeanconnotativemeaning.Typically，connotativemean

7、ingreferstotheovertonesorassociationssuggestedbytheconceptualmeaning，traditionallyknownasconnotations.Theseconnotationsusuallyassociatedwithcommonsenseorcompromise，toacertaindegree，betweenspeakersandaudience.Otherwise，misunderstandingsmaybetheonlyresultes.Theconnotativemeaningisqu

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