indexically

Examples

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• In a photograph of a woman smoking a cigarette, fire is signified indexically via smoke.

  Academic text (2005)

• Is it just a reference to a multi-named place in a polyglot world, or does it mark indexically a particular identity of the speaker—and therefore that of the driver?

  Academic text (2007)

• Any work of art, taken as a whole, before it is regarded formally, aesthetically, or expressively, may also be regarded indexically; that is, in terms of its own facture, as the result and record of its having been made.

  Academic text (1994)

• But his outburst did point out that indexically, not only is Sri Aman a loaded place-name, but that it is a Malay place-name.

  Academic text (2007)

• Suddenly the ticketing clerk understood what I was driving at, not referentially, but indexically, and that prompted her to note that if I had been asking a lot of questions about Bong, one of the former leaders of the North Kalimantan Peoples' Army.

  Academic text (2007)

• In many societies, names bestowed by kin denote membership in descent groups and thus, indexically, denote rights and statuses that are tied to descent.

  Academic text (1992)

• The teacher explained the painting indexically, pointing to specific elements that revealed its historical context.

• In the discussion, she referenced the novel indexically, highlighting passages that directly related to the theme of identity.

• The guide used gestures indexically to indicate the landmarks, allowing the tourists to understand their significance.

Synonyms

R

referentially

vsindexically

7.3

In a way that points to something mentioned before

points to things by signs rather than naming them

I

indicatively

vsindexically

5.7

Showing something clearly with a movement like a nod

points to things directly using signs or explicit naming

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology