indexicality
- noun
- /ˌɪndɛkˈsɪkəlɪti/
- Specialized
:
indexicalidad
- Words like 'here' and 'now' demonstrate indexicality because their meanings change based on where and when they are spoken.
- order of indexicality
Examples
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For, as Barthes put it, a corollary of the photograph's indexicality is that "the photographic message is a continuous message."
Academic text (1999) -
In linguistics, indexicality refers to how certain words can only be understood in specific contexts.
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You need to have a certain indexicality, or it quickly becomes like applied arts, design, or a formal experiment.
Blog text (18) -
I distinguish the mode of her work from this precedent for the discussion of dance in terms of indexicality.
Academic text (1999) -
With such renewed interest in indexicality, the debate on realism takes a deeper turn in the already established controversy.
Academic text (2017) -
In other words, orders of historically produced indexicalities exist that privilege and facilitate the voices of some over others.
Academic text (2013) -
Entextualizing practices, especially those that fail to recognize placed resources and orders of indexicality, contribute to inequalities of voice.
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Following Blommaert, I now discuss possible contextualizing factors that affect orders of indexicality related to sociocultural meanings.
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Here modernism is conceived developmentally as a history of increasing effects of indexicality, as if modernists were perfecting a set of techniques.
Academic text (1994) -
Based on discrepancies between orders of indexicality, voice is thus defined by Blommaert as "the ways in which people manage to make themselves understood or fail to do so" (2005, p. 68).
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
Words like I, you, here and now that change meaning depending on who, when and where
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Indexicality comes from index, which means 'pointer' — think of an index finger or the index at the back of a book that points to pages. Words like 'here' and 'now' work the same way: they 'point' to the place or time you are in, so indexicality is the quality of meaning that depends on the context.
