Abstract

This article deals with denotation and connotation of a word in the English and Uzbek languages. The article also discusses logical-philosophical concept of connotation, semantic connotations, connotations with an emotional basis. This way, the term could be better defined according to how it has been used in a sentence or a phrase. In deciphering such meaning, a listener or a reader uses different aspects that most often than not relate to personal interpretation basing from his experience and the history that binds the word being defined.