Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
autorreferncialidad
English translation:
Auto-referentiality
Added to glossary by
Lydia De Jorge
Jan 28, 2011 16:44
13 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Andrea Panche
autorreferncialidad
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
I need to express, in one word, the capacity of language, and specificaly of literary language, for make reference to itself. It is like metalinguistic function of Jakobson´s functions of language.
Proposed translations
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| 4 | Auto-referentiality |
Lydia De Jorge
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| 2 +5 | self-referentiality |
Steven Huddleston
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| 4 | reflexivity |
Dr Trevor Stack
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| 3 | self-referencing |
Claudia Reynaud
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Change log
Feb 2, 2011 04:23: Lydia De Jorge Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
30 mins
Lydia De Jorge
United States
United States
Native in Spanish
&
English
Specializes in field
United States
Don't just say it, say it right!
Native in: Spanish 
, English
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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133
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Auto-referentiality
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Department of English Language and Literature
Self-Reflexivity (or Auto-Referentiality). At this stage we should draw attention to another important distinction. What we have thus far been concerned ...
courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/pomo.htm - Cached - Similar
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History and the Problem of Auto-referentiality | ActiveHistory.ca
Mar 4, 2010 ... Auto-referentiality, as I define it, simply means historians are .... Citizenship Literacy and National Self-identity: The Historical Impact ...
activehistory.ca/2010/.../history-and-the-problem-of-auto-referentiality/ - Cached
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Glad to help! Saludos!
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Department of English Language and Literature
Self-Reflexivity (or Auto-Referentiality). At this stage we should draw attention to another important distinction. What we have thus far been concerned ...
courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/pomo.htm - Cached - Similar
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History and the Problem of Auto-referentiality | ActiveHistory.ca
Mar 4, 2010 ... Auto-referentiality, as I define it, simply means historians are .... Citizenship Literacy and National Self-identity: The Historical Impact ...
activehistory.ca/2010/.../history-and-the-problem-of-auto-referentiality/ - Cached
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Glad to help! Saludos!
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks!! This is the most adequated word for what I´m trying to express."
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Claudia Reynaud
United States
United States
Native in Spanish
&
English
United States
Quite the perfectionist
Native in: English (Variant: US) , Spanish (Variant: Mexican)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
self-referencing
Self-reference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence or formula refers to itself. The reference may be expressed either directly—through ...
Usage - Examples - Self-referential sentences - Notes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference - En caché - Similares
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Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence or formula refers to itself. The reference may be expressed either directly—through ...
Usage - Examples - Self-referential sentences - Notes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference - En caché - Similares
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Saludos!
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Steven Huddleston
Mexico
Mexico
Native in Spanish
&
English
Works in field
Mexico
Dual-Native English & Spanish Translator
Native in: English (Variants: Canadian, British, UK, US) , Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Peruvian, Colombian, Uruguayan, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Argentine, Chilean, Venezuelan, Costa Rican, Mexican, Standard-Spain, US, Ecuadorian , Dominican)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
Related KudoZ points
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self-referentiality
I know, I know, it doesn´t exist, but I found a reference to it, hey!
Peer comment(s):
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Robert Forstag
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Simon Bruni
: Does seem to be in use! http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/nov/04/jokes-...
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Thank you, Simon!
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liz askew
: Judith Goldman - Hannah=hannaH: Politics, Ethics, and Clairvoyance ... by J Goldman - 2001 - Cited by 3 - Related articles According to Borsch-Jacobsen's logic, because we give authority through belief, ..... That self-referentiality inheres in margin and
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Thank you, Liz!
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Ventnai
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Thank you, Ian!
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Thayenga
: Enjoy your weekend. :)
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Thank you, Thayenga! You too! :-D
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Dr Trevor Stack
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Works in field
United Kingdom
Related KudoZ points
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4
reflexivity
Reflexivity for linguists is the ability to use language to refer to itself, studied by Jacobson and others, which is what makes language special as a mode of communication, and it is thus the correct translation of autorreferencialidad in English. Self-referencing etc. means only referring to the self, which is only one aspect of autorreferencialidad.
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See http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&co... In pragmatic theory, ‘reflexivity’ labels the ways
language inevitably refers to itself (Jakobson, 1960;
Silverstein, 1979; Lucy, 1993; Taylor, 2000). The reflexive
function of language is easiest to see in overtly
metalinguistic genres such as dictionaries and usage
guides, but every utterance is potentially normative,
providing a model for one way utterances can sound
and be structured and how recurring.
However it's true that "self-referentiality" gets used in the same way by some linguists, and it may be - I'm not sure - that "reflexividad" has a similar meaning in Spanish linguistics, in which case it doesn't make sense to change the term in English. But if you're looking for elegance and simplicity, I would go with "reflexivity" rather than the cumbersome "self-referentiality".
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See http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&co... In pragmatic theory, ‘reflexivity’ labels the ways
language inevitably refers to itself (Jakobson, 1960;
Silverstein, 1979; Lucy, 1993; Taylor, 2000). The reflexive
function of language is easiest to see in overtly
metalinguistic genres such as dictionaries and usage
guides, but every utterance is potentially normative,
providing a model for one way utterances can sound
and be structured and how recurring.
However it's true that "self-referentiality" gets used in the same way by some linguists, and it may be - I'm not sure - that "reflexividad" has a similar meaning in Spanish linguistics, in which case it doesn't make sense to change the term in English. But if you're looking for elegance and simplicity, I would go with "reflexivity" rather than the cumbersome "self-referentiality".
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