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"I" is the only essential indexical in that situation.

A pure indexical sign does not contribute to the meaning of the propositions at all.

It is possible for signs to have two kinds of meaning, referred to as indexical and referential.

However, as an indexical category, what counts as common sense is contextually specific.

Of course there are many discourses existing where we lack clear referents for indexical meanings.

This article will look at the symbolic, icon, and indexical modes of visual agricultural images.

'Bluffing' is thus an indexical term used in different ways by Easton's section police.

The conceptual or lexical meaning is sufficient for its indexical purpose on this occasion.

This leads to the indexing of groups with which the style is associated, and thus simplifies the indexical field at hand.

'I' would be considered a referential indexical sign.

The degree to which state agents work to influence video production contradicts the use of those images by news organizations as indexical, objective representations.

Examples of indexical signs include thunder and footprints.

The work is not symbolic but indexical - a trace of a real event of a real body in time.

A symbol is instanced by a specialized indexical sinsign.

"Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life."

He submits that photographs have a special status now because they are seen as "indexical" signs, "direct imprints of reality itself."

Even an indexical phrase like "This chair" does not transmit an "ontological commitment" on each occasion of its use.

In the Eckertian view, a person's linguistic style identifies their position in an indexical field of social meanings.

According to Lewis, "actual" is merely an indexical label we give to a world when we locate ourselves in it.

This process is called the Indexical Hypothesis.

Word order is not the only conceivable grammatical device for enhancing the indexical precision of lexical items.

Of course, if occasions arise when the symbols resist indexical conversion, for all our procedural efforts, then interpretation will fail.

It is not customary to find any detail relating to these indexical features of the speaker in transcriptions by discourse analysts.

I suggest, however, that the indexical meaning is partly determined by the manifestation of symbolic meaning within certain contexts.

Language testing assumes that scores are indexical of the linguistic abilities required for a real-world communicative purpose.

Ms. Catterson, who helped Ms. Rainer break down the original choreography's relationship to the music in the making of "AG Indexical," said: "I think some downtown people, frankly, will be really disappointed.