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40For Atkins and Rundell, ―semantic content‖ refers to what other linguists calldenotation, reference and cognitive meaning. So, semantic content designates ―the‗literal‘ meaning of an expression together with its ‗connotation‘ or any figurativemeaning that may be associated with it‖ (Atkins and Rundell 2008: 469). Usually, twowords denoting the same object such as tiger and tigre form an exact match of semanticcontent.―Collocational context‖ is an important feature according to which therelationship of equivalence between lexical units is established because sometimescollocates in the SL produce different translations in the TL (Figure 6). Bunch hasdifferent equivalents in French depending on whether it collocates, for instance, withflowers as in a bunch of flowers or bunch of hair. The French equivalent of bunch as inbunch of flowers is bouquet and the French equivalent of bunch as in bunch of hair istouffe or houppe. The same is valid for verbs and adjectives (Figure 6).Figure 6. Example of the importance of collocational patternsfor evaluating equivalence (taken from Collins Robert FrenchDictionary: French-English/English-French (2006) in Atkinsand Rundell 2008: 470)