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Referential

Referential | Referentially | Referentiality

Referential meaning

Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other. | Of or relating to a referent. | Of or relating to reference or allusion.

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The former relies on context (indexical and referential meaning) by referring to a chair specifically in the room at that moment while the latter is independent of the context (semantico-referential meaning), meaning the concept chair.

Another winning radio spot involved a cheeky, self-referential script posted outside of an ad agency, with the voiceover reading, “Ad people like me used to make big budget TV commercials on tropical islands.

Influential or Referential Power: A literary work of great power gives rise to others of equal if not necessarily greater power.

ISIN stands for International Securities Identification Numbering system and is the global ISO standard for unique identification of financial and referential instruments, including equity, debt, derivatives and indices.

Taco Bell has leveraged Twitter to banter with the community around the brand and round out Taco Bell’s snarky, self-referential brand voice, Weltman said, which has won the brand over 1.9 million Twitter followers.

The referential cherry on top is Stahelski's use of a cover version of "Nowhere to Run" by Lola Collette — "The Warriors" used a cover of the same song (by Arnold McCuller) at the same moment.

But the stealthy cherry on top is a self-referential joke that Edebiri has, alluding to some remarks she made about musical guest Jennifer Lopez while appearing on a podcast some time ago.

It is also her most self-referential work; Swift unapologetically breaks the fourth wall by addressing her audience and the hysteria surrounding her persona directly.

The show takes the somewhat nebulous events of the book and, while still trafficking in plenty of flashy self-referential effects, presents a more conventional, linear plot with a jokey, sardonic style that replaces the book’s wistfulness.

By the end of the available episodes, it really felt like the show had found a groove that works despite leaning heavily on referential humor.

It doesn’t get much more self-referential than that.

It’s a self-referential celebrity of the sort that thrived in an era when we were not used to constant access to the stars, when Jordan alighting from Mount Olympus to engage with the public was an astounding, major event.

Its self-referential title adds up Fellini’s seven solo features and his three “half” films up to that time.

I’ve been doing a lot of self-referential quizzes designed to teach you logic.

The new Disney era of "Star Wars" is well known at this point for its incessant nods to old "Star Wars" movies, and "Solo: A Star Wars Story" is the most referential of these movies yet.

Toss in a limited and self-referential vocabulary of chases, explosions, standoffs and last-ditch rescues, and you get a cinematic language stuck in a tiresome case of diminishing returns.

It is not the most insightful book about Churchill, but Johnson clearly identifies with the great war leader and there are many passages in the book that read as self-referential.

It’s one of those distracting, self-referential ones a first year film student might make, the kind with lots of “explainer” text.

She re-brands as a bad kid and launches an inevitably lackluster music career full of self-referential raps about the disadvantages of incredible privilege.

Truly missed referential opportunity.