The second important way in which meanings show instability, is the presence of supplementery values which we call 'connotations'. The meaning of a form for any one speaker is nothing more than a result of the situations in which he has heard this form.
- Bloomfield (1935), Pag. 151

The most important connotations arise from the social standing of the speakers who use a form.
- Bloomfield (1935), Pag. 152

The connotation of technical forms gets its flavor from the standing of the trade or craft from which they are taken.
- Bloomfield (1935), Pag. 152

The connotation of learned forms is vaguer but more frequent: almost any colloquial form has a parallel form with learned connotation.
- Bloomfield (1935), Pag. 153

Foreign speech-forms bear connotations of their own, which reflect our attitude toward foreign peoples. The foreign features of form may consist in peculiarities of sound or of phonetic pattern [...]
- Bloomfield (1935), Pag. 153

Opposed to the foreign-learned connotation, the slangy connotation is facetious and unrestrained [...]
- Bloomfield (1935), Pag. 154