referential in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for referential in the English»French Dictionary

referential [Brit ˌrɛfəˈrɛnʃ(ə)l, Am ˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl] ADJ

referential

référentiel/-ielle

self-referential ADJ

self-referential

autoréférentiel/-ielle

Translations for referential in the French»English Dictionary

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référentiel (référentielle) (gén)

referential

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English

An active audience is always to find; referential, explicit, implicit, and symptomatic meaning.

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Attributive uses provide a description of whoever is being referred to, while referential uses point out the actual referent.

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Self-referential installations dot the premises and peek out from walls and crawl spaces in surprising ways.

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A non-lexical backchannel is a vocalized sound that has little or no referential meaning but still verbalizes the listener's attention.

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Once the words are learned, they eschewed those referential (pointing) gestures.

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The script is one of the game's crowning achievements, chock-full of delicious innuendo and self-referential humour.

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Note that it is also applied at the indeterminacy of translation, but has traditionally been introduced to point up referential inscrutability.

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Initially highly self-referential, one reviewer has noted a more serious undertone to his more recent works.

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Instead of conveying linguistic content and pointing to something outside itself, scat musiclike instrumental musicis self-referential and does what it means.

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Thus, tuckahoe and cohee quickly evolved into solely self-referential terms describing a family's ethnic and cultural lineage, independent of social class or wealth.

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