| 单词 | referent |
| 例句 | And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A reader of this intimidating passage can marvel at Butler’s ability to juggle abstract propositions about still more abstract propositions, with no real-world referent in sight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Illuminators who lost their referents collapsed, their bodies empty and catatonic, eyes open but not seeing, breathing but not living, until their organs slowly stopped working and they died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Lon searched the skull for another mark, another referent, but found nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Erastis had always said he would need a referent, something in the physical world to anchor him in the seas of light that spanned all of history. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s isn’t functioning as a modifier, which shades the meaning of genius, but as a determiner, which pins down its referent, in the same way that an article like the or this would do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Erastis had warned him about the dangers of losing your referent. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z "But that would be sad to me, to have lost the referent." Georgia’s peach crop loss is about more than just fruit 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Atwood is pleased “they have remained true to the central premise: Nothing goes in that does not have a real-life referent.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The most limited way to read the book is to comb it for its direct referents to reality. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Without a specific referent, it's a graphic representation of a mental image that comes to mind when we think tree. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In another piece, again so much less evocative than its referent, she calls to mind the elegant colored yarn installations of Fred Sandback. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The most vividly stylized pick on this list, “Afro Samurai” is an entrancingly jarring hodgepodge of cultural referents. From ‘Proud Family’ to ‘The Boondocks’: 11 Black Animated Series 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z I mention driving difficulties only as a referent for the ways in which Haiti struggles. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z We should retire “hipster” as a term without referent or political salience. Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z It also provides a referent for salvaging the possibility of individual and collective resistance against the evolving dynamics of an American-style fascism that poses a dire threat to democracy at home and abroad. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Her affable, sleazy semi-rap has become one of the dominant pop sounds of the last year and a half, demonstrating how smoothly a hip-hop-influenced sound wiped clean of racial referents can go down. Critic?s Notebook: Straight Out of the East Bay, With Aspirations and Swag 2011-08-20T00:19:58Z There are piles of film referents, many of which appear unabashedly in the text. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Such layering of referents is very much her style. Waves of Dark History Break on an Olympic Pool 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “Don’t shrink or distort the classical referents, don’t lose that old-school charm — you are talking to history.” Forsythe Coaches Boston Ballet in ‘The Second Detail’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Those versed in contemporary art will recognize the referents. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z In art-speak, it's an index — a pictorial sign that maintains a physical tie to its referent. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Filtering the art through Western referents is too tempting, and too facile. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z In “Limonov,” Carrère once again reminds us of Dostoyevsky, his most constant cultural referent when in his Russian mode. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Historical memory, in this case, is a crucial referent for gaining insights into the dark forces and totalitarian forms emerging under the Trump regime. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z However, Drag me to Hell and The Evil Dead probably aren't cinematic referents Kent and his designer Paul Brown will call on in their production for their staging of the Don's demise. Director Jonathan Kent: Opera's great antihero 2010-07-01T21:01:00Z “KIMI” self-consciously draws from an assortment of cinematic referents, including obvious touchstones like “Rear Window” and woman-in-peril-at-home thrillers like “Midnight Lace.” ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Most consumers of the copy have no actual referent; they have instead a manipulative blip that codes for “primal.” Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z Sure, the album is chockful of cultural referents — from the loopy Doors-like lyrical stylings of “Bury a Friend” and tape loops from "The Office" to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Billie Eilish is the new pop intelligentsia 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Like his previous releases, it’s full of genial and only slightly dusty country, with specific rural referents few and far between. In Nashville, Luke Bryan and Others Forgo Cowboy Hats 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z The photograph's status as physical trace of its referent could hardly be more literal, more concrete, yet Breuer's work abounds in poetic possibility. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The diversity and lack of real-world referents are probably what has prevented Mr. Price’s work from being broadly appreciated sooner. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z We’re in that place on the human map too often avoided by American novelists: poverty, the subtle prison where society’s marginalized are immured, pick your particular referent. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s a potent reminder of the psychic resonance the show holds for someone who grew up with these referents. ‘Yellowjackets’ Shows Us the Teenage Girlhood We Were Hungry For 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z “Rather, people can use terms like ‘Einstein,’ ‘springbok,’ perhaps even ‘computer,’ despite being too ignorant or wrong to provide identifying descriptions of their referents,” Professor Devitt said. Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths in Semantics, Dies at 81 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z We’ve added words to the dictionary; we’ve transformed memes into instantly recognizable referents; we can also spawn new norms with startling turnover. Opinion | We all want catharsis. West Elm Caleb shows it can carry a cost. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z You can tweak a reference all you like, but the referent will stay just the same. Opinion | Quidditch’s new name might teach J.K. Rowling a surprising lesson 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The referents are hipper than with previous Disney stars looking to break out of the Mouse House, and the language is coarser with F-bombs dropping every few tunes. Review: Olivia Rodrigo delivers flawless Gen Z pop on her debut album 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z He has succeeded in controlling our public sphere for five years, making himself the referent on all of our political discussions. The secret of his success: Donald Trump's six weird tricks for authoritarian rule 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “We can use terms successfully not because we know much about the referent but because we’re linked to the referent by a great social chain of communication.” Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths in Semantics, Dies at 81 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “It’s not the most typical referent for ‘sandwich,’” he mused. It’s time to stop debating whether a hot dog is a sandwich 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And they also describe the anxiety of reality blur, that "breaking point" where the observer loses a sense of moorings, bereft of real-world referents and precedents. Virtual nuclear weapons design and the blur of reality 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Atwood is pleased “they have remained true to the central premise: Nothing goes in that does not have a real-life referent.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z He wants to be the referent for everything in politics because that ultimately gives him control. The secret of his success: Donald Trump's six weird tricks for authoritarian rule 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z "These personal referents undercut Khan’s defense that his words were artistic expressions," the court's 22-page opinion said. Appeals judge upholds conviction against Uber driver over violent Facebook threats against Rahm Emanuel, others 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s more signifier than signified, more symbol than referent. Ninja’s first book isn’t literature — it’s a brand extension 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “The Law” is a second Whiteread referent, this one a chunky concrete cast of a television monitor standing directly on the floor, as well-behaved Minimalist doctrine insists sculpture must do. Review: Sarah Lucas show at the Hammer Museum is naked but definitely not afraid 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z As a description of racial identity it’s a pretty lazy referent not to any actual blackness, but an essential non-whiteness. Smooth, angry, cool, powerful: how we talk about blackness 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z What Kakutani brings to the narrative is her wide literary referent and an ability to nail an opponent with flair. Michiko Kakutani turns to Donald Trump and fake news in 'The Death of Truth' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z They may share historical referents and bend to visual trends, but every cartoon literally shapes reality to its own ends. Let's get animated: The cartoons we'll keep watching in 2018 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z This exacerbates political polarization by reducing “shared cultural referents” and “common knowledge about current events.” Opinion | Our dangerous, idiotic national conversation 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Because his imagined correspondents in M13 were not likely to understand any human language, he filled the grid with a mix of mathematical and visual referents. Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Next thing you know, woke is turning up in broadsheet newspapers as a referent for millennial black activism. Smooth, angry, cool, powerful: how we talk about blackness 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Even posing the question feels odd – almost a category error – since “winning” scarcely exists as a referent in so much of progressive practice. Trump and Brexit left progressives aghast. They should be emboldened | Jeff Sparrow 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z These people – the social referents you should target – get noticed more by their peers. Cool Kids Can Curb Bullying, Study Finds 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z You'll hear bits of the pop songbook — "got it going on" or "ground control to Major Tom" — but they sound like Lana first and the referent second. Lana Del Rey and the Weeknd bring a welcome iciness to pop 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Other messaging enthusiasts think we needn’t bother worrying about primers and common referents. Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z That is, people tend to compare their wage to referent others to determine its fairness. Gravity's $70,000 Minimum Wage 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He’s the true American Babbitt: good-natured, ignorant, forever optimistic, his understanding of the universe limited to a tiny range of insular referents. When Bob Hope Was Funny 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Instrumented pigs with no MI induction served as referent controls. [Research Articles] Local Hydrogel Release of Recombinant TIMP-3 Attenuates Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling After Experimental Myocardial Infarction 2014-02-12T19:25:05.414Z Border collie comprehends object names as verbal referents. How to Teach Language to Dogs 2013-07-30T20:45:03.377Z Finally, referent power is very similar to another concept – social status. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z It pretends to be a noun but it has no referent. The Ethical Engineer Either the term "minor epic" or "epyllion" is satisfactory, provided its referent is clear, and accurately described. Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) Ideas seemed to come from nowhere; fragments of concepts that seemed to have no referents. Suite Mentale Goritz was supplicant referent, and as such he must have known Lucretia personally, because the influential daughter of the Pope was the constant recipient of petitions of various sorts. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day But it’s hard to argue that having parents with referent power wouldn’t give anyone their own leg up on the referent power scale. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z O navis, referent… Think, I pray you, of Wolfe dropping down the dark St. Lawrence; of Wolfe and, ahead of him, the Heights of Abraham! The Mayor of Troy "That term has no referent," the machine said severely. Bad Medicine Words such as `mumble', `sigh', and `groan' are spoken in places where their referent might more naturally be used. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 The strategy is to place the domain of the referent in the writings. The Civilization of Illiteracy The general consensus in psychological research is that there are five types of power – legitimate, expert, coercive, reward, and referent. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z Rather, referent power is what we might also call ‘celebrity.’ I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z People with referent power are revered and mimicked because they’re in the public eye and other people admire them. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z Angelina Jolie has referent power because when she writes about undergoing a preventive double mastectomy, other people suddenly start talking about preventive double mastectomies. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z It is impressive how language houses concepts for which there is no referent in practical experience, but which are constituted exactly because some aspects of practical experience cannot be otherwise explained. The Civilization of Illiteracy People with referent power don’t necessarily have any concrete, institutional power over others at all. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z Jennifer Aniston has referent power because when she cut her hair for a TV show, thousands of women went to their salons and asked for the exact same style. I'm Excited About The Royal Baby (And It's Okay If You Are Too) 2013-07-23T13:45:00.763Z The only referent of philosophy is the human being constituted in practical experiences. The Civilization of Illiteracy Geometry frequently uses notations whose referent is rather abstract. The Civilization of Illiteracy Henceforth, it subjects the readers of the alphabetic text to the task of filling the enormous gap separating the graphic sign from its referent with their own experience. The Civilization of Illiteracy |
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