referentiality
- noun
- /ˌrɛfərɛnˈʃiːəlɪti/
- Specialized
:
referencialidad
- In linguistics, referentiality is essential for understanding how terms relate to objects or ideas in the real world.
- self-referentiality
Examples
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Given that identities in the context of a civil war quickly become essentialized, such a war is a prime opportunity to confront essentialized identities because what a civil war does is stretch national identity so thin as to make its logic of contingent referentiality readily apparent.
Academic text (2017) -
How can experience be restored while, at the same time, its referentiality becomes even more ambiguous?
Academic text (2000) -
On the level of the text, neither has a greater claim to truth or referentiality (3).
Academic text (2018) -
The enriching potential of split-referentiality, then, motivates the narrative of social realism both at the level of intention and performance.
Academic text (1991) -
Even while Gustafsson carries out a relentless attack throughout this text on referentiality and transcendent meaning, unlike other authors and critics such as Robbe-Grillet, he retains a hope for a revised form.
Academic text (2000) -
The quality of referentiality in this artwork allows viewers to connect deeply with its underlying themes.
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Philosophers often debate the referentiality of language and its ability to reflect reality accurately.
Synonyms
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The thing a word or phrase points to
How Referential
Surface Forms
Morphology
referentiality = referential (transparent) = refer + ent + ial + ity
Standard formation from 'referential' with '-ity' creating an abstract noun meaning 'the property of being referential'.
Etymology
The word referentiality comes from refer, meaning 'to point back', and the ending -ity turns it into a 'quality' or thing. So referentiality is the quality of words or expressions that point to something else, like how a pronoun points to a person or an object.