However, not every combination of words has meaning or a referent idea.

Referent power is having someone followers look up to that has the ability to influence their behavior.

Referent power is only one factor contributing to group effectiveness.

Referent power is gained by a leader who has strong interpersonal relationship skills.

The second asks how often the partner carried out each item within the same referent period.

Referent power is commonly seen in political and military figures, although celebrities often have this as well.

Referent honorifics express the status of the person being spoken about.

Nationalism and patriotism count towards an intangible sort of referent power.

In the literary model, the speaker is the one who retains complete control and responsibility over the course of referent determination.

Referent power is the power or ability of individuals to attract others and build loyalty.

The failure to find a referent results in a numerical penalty being awarded to the reading for which it occurs.

Referent authority: refers to the ability to influence others through charisma, personality, and charm.

(b) As a referent subject: The paper was wet.

People store related pieces of information in "referent bins" in their long-term memory.

Advertisers have long used the referent power of sports figures for products endorsements, for example.

Nationalism, patriotism, celebrities, mass leaders and widely-respected people are examples of referent power in effect.

Dates quoted below are referent to 2006.

Anything from Tom Hatcher yet on those referent transfer patches?"

Referent power is unstable alone, and is not enough for a leader who wants longevity and respect.

Generally, a written symbol or spoken word is considered the sign, but a cluster of words can also be considered signs with a referent idea.

All they needed, really, were referent points, a modulator coil, and a reason to take the ships with them when they went."

When people view gossiping as a petty activity done to waste time, a gossipers referent power can decrease along with their reputation.

Pronouns also inflect for nominative, accusative, referent and locative cases.

The referent pronouns encode virtually any animate oblique argument.

They also change depending on whether they are in the nominative, accusative, referent or locative case.

And those too were words for which he used to have no referents.

With new referents, the near or far forms will be used.

Thus, there is no particular reason why we should choose one referent rather than another.

Maybe it's my age, but I have absolutely no referents for this music.

That was why the colors were wrong, and the size referents.

Before 1700, the name was vague without a specific referent.

Referents are the objects in the world that words pick out.

Since these are two very different referents, the validity of the term has been called into question.

Sometimes we find there is no English word for the referent."

So, the name was fixed to its referent by a description.

It's a word I never had a referent for before."

It was heavy in imagery that could have a lot of different referents, not just one.

The object referred to is called the "referent" of the word.

It was the first house of the Congregation and the referent for the ones that followed.

The pronoun it in the second example, on the other hand, has no referent.

However, they actually refer to referents already established in the conversation, whether near or far.

Since the referent is ambiguous, the thing needs to be rewritten.

In adult terms, the principal referent for single rooms was a sexual one.

The mind translated them into familiar concepts for lack of referents.

After completing his studies, Albert worked as a historian and referent.

There may be a causal connection between a reference and a referent.

Evans further developed this line, arguing that a sense without a referent was not possible.

Since there was no such horse, the name has no referent.

So we have no referent for what they mean."

Some of these names could not easily be translated into any meaningful human referent.