Referent information

A referent (/ˈrɛfərənt/ REF-ər-ənt) is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers. For example, in the sentence...

Referent power is a form of reverence gained by a leader who has strong interpersonal relationship skills. Referent power, as an aspect of personal power...

The nearest referent is a grammatical term sometimes used when two or more possible referents of a pronoun, or other part of speech, cause ambiguity in...

potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions...

is called the referent of the first object. A name is usually a phrase or expression, or some other symbolic representation. Its referent may be anything...

Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial...

although the pronouns can have a referent, they cannot have a direct relationship with the referent where the referent selects the pronoun. For instance...

Elicitation interviews help to identify relevant behavioral outcomes, referents, cultural factors, facilitating factors, and barriers to change in the...

Canadian that most typically modify nouns, denoting characteristics of their referents (e.g., a red car). As modifiers, they come before the nouns they modify...

intervals. It is often a key pattern (also known as a guide pattern, phrasing referent, timeline, or asymmetrical timeline), in most cases it is a metal bell...

OBV) third person is a grammatical-person marking that distinguishes a referent that is less important to the discourse from one that is more important...

close correspondence between the behaviour of the model and that of its referent. The crafting of this correspondence can be 'empirical' in a wide variety...

a given exemplar of a particular phoneme differed from a referent phoneme. If the referent phoneme is a non-prototypical phoneme for that language, both...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Parting Glass "The Parting Glass" is a Scottish traditional song, often sung at the end of a...

Senior officials 1st class Referent of the state civilian service of the Russian Federation 1st class Jurist 2nd class Referent of the state civilian service...

within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual...

referent that is visible and in a known distance from both the speaker and the listener(s) (both the speaker and the listener(s) can see the referent)...

something that does not have any sex, or do not specify the sex of their referent, have come to belong to one or other of the genders, in a way that may...

depending on the relative status of the speaker, listener, and third-person referents. Most nouns in the Japanese language may be made polite by the addition...

link from some other website (the referrer) to that web resource (the referent). A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory...

intensional definitions are two key ways in which the objects, concepts, or referents a term refers to can be defined. They give meaning or denotation to a...

the philosophy of language, an empty name is a proper name that has no referent. The problem of empty names is the idea that empty names have a meaning...

touching or being parallel to the referent. It can be combined with handshape to designate pointing or facing; with the referent, where it surfaces as placement;...

formal or material accordingly when it refers to its usual non-linguistic referent (as in "Charles is a man"), or to itself as a linguistic entity (as in...

more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same referent. For example, in Bill said Alice would arrive soon, and she did, the words...