referential
റെഫെറെൻഷ്യൽ
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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In language, the words we deal with do have 'referential' meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system.
As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely 'referential' level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants.
Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the 'referential' hyperlinks)?
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.
While the poems are often wild as usual, their 'referential' reach is bound by the subject of the volume.
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.
It is these 'referential' touches that enhance the movie.
The map is a 'referential' structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality.
The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and 'referential' .
The Walkers' art balances on a line between 'referential' and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line.
Even the earlier buildings are 'referential' , trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
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.
The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not 'referential' to anything else.
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.
Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the 'referential' jokiness of postmodernism.
Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic 'referential' morphemes here come from.
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.
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.
As both message and context, nature can manifest the 'referential' function.
K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a 'referential' theory of language.
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.
The 'referential' type of thing is what excites me.
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.
This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is 'referential' , and always to one place.
Certainly, an introductory survey needs to account for these texts, summarise their content and aims, and use them 'referentially' as an argument progresses.
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.
Would the speakers of such a language be prohibited from using their descriptions 'referentially' ?
All this is taken by Derrida's critics for an attack on truth itself, 'referentiality' and the stability of interpretative contexts.
She believed, and nourished the belief, that genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human 'referentiality' .
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