referential
నిర్దేశకం
definition
adjective
As both message and context, nature can manifest the referential function.
containing or of the nature of references or allusions.
K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a referential theory of language.
of or relating to a referent, in particular having the external world rather than a text or language as a referent.
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The Walkers' art balances on a line between 'referential' and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line.
K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a 'referential' theory of language.
Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its 'referential' laurels.
Even the earlier buildings are 'referential' , trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
The map is a 'referential' structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is only part of Lewis's multi-layered seven-volume fiction, and like most 'referential' treatments of classic literature, it is overlong and sometimes awkward.
Almodóvar is one wildly 'referential' director, riding pop culture throughout this Bad Education.
To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the 'referential' , into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha.
While the poems are often wild as usual, their 'referential' reach is bound by the subject of the volume.
Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic 'referential' morphemes here come from.
The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and 'referential' .
Before identifying a paradigmatic text on which to focus, a basic understanding of the 'referential' patterns in audience attitudes toward age, gender, and romance in screen cultures was sought.
This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is 'referential' , and always to one place.
It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely 'referential' to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas.
Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the 'referential' jokiness of postmodernism.
Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally 'referential' idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
As both message and context, nature can manifest the 'referential' function.
As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely 'referential' level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants.
It is these 'referential' touches that enhance the movie.
There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are 'referential' and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot.
Another piece of evidence that supported the study was that male talk tends to be more 'referential' or informative, while female talk is more supportive and facilitative.
In language, the words we deal with do have 'referential' meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system.
The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not 'referential' to anything else.
Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the 'referential' hyperlinks)?
The 'referential' type of thing is what excites me.
The point of deconstruction was that language, by its nature, escapes pure 'referentiality' ; it was never that the things language tries to refer to do not exist.
However, in spite of the conference's attempted focus on the 1960s, Watten's talk was one of the few to actually attempt a contextualizing framework of the decade - not bad for a poet who seeks to subvert direct 'referentiality' in his work.
Logophoric pronouns are semantically stronger than regular pronouns in that syntactically, they usually require to be bound in a local domain, and semantically, they are canonically 'referentially' dependent.
All this is taken by Derrida's critics for an attack on truth itself, 'referentiality' and the stability of interpretative contexts.
Certainly, an introductory survey needs to account for these texts, summarise their content and aims, and use them 'referentially' as an argument progresses.
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