| 单词 | referent-object |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreferent-object b. The entity referred to or signified by a word or expression; a thing or person alluded to. Also referent-object. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > reference > [noun] > referent significatec1449 thinga1477 referent1923 referend1925 nominatum1947 1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning i. 13 It has seemed desirable, therefore, to introduce a technical term to stand for whatever we may be thinking of or referring to. ‘Object’, though this is its original use, has had an unfortunate history. The word ‘referent’, therefore, has been adopted. 1938 Mod. Lang. Rev. 33 547 The reinterpretation of the term [baroque] has sprung, not..from the feeling that it could be better applied to some other type of art, but from the revaluation of its original referent. 1964 Language 40 229 The much-studied relations of words to their referent-objects. 1981 I. McEwan Comfort of Strangers x. 134 As if repetition could have returned meaning to the word, and brought alive its referent. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 31/1 A one-to-one correspondence between world and word in which the word becomes a surrogate for its referent. < as lemmas |
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