referents in English

noun
1
the thing that a word or phrase denotes or stands for.
“the Morning Star” and “the Evening Star” have the same referent (the planet Venus)

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1. Therefore, you need to make sure Antecedents have clear referents

2. Essentially rhetorical, populism Aggrandizes words to exaggerate their referents, like Jukka being kind or Turkey taking over Europe, and thus divides the masses with love or fear

3. ‘Text modifications that increase coherence range from low-level information, such as identifying Anaphoric referents, synonymous terms, or connective ties, to supplying background information left unstated in the text.’

4. In my work, I have been interested in how, beyond the territorial occupation and the plundering of natural wealth and bodies, the colonizer also “colonizes” the cultural images of the colonized, appropriating their referents, Acculturizing the population, and building an exoticizing story, where the colonized is presented as a “savage