A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
The intension and extension of a word
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
Synonym of interpretation (an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure)
Synonym of interpretation (the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another)