A large body of evidence suggested that both emotion and self-referential processing can enhance memory. However, it remains unclear how these two factors influence directed forgetting. This study speculates that directed forgetting of negative self-referential memory is more difficult than forgetting of other-referential memory. To verify this speculation, we combined the directed forgetting p...

Referential integrity is a database constraint that ensures that references between data are indeed valid and intact. Referential integrity is a fundamental principle of database theory and arises from the notion that a database should not only store data, but should actively seek to ensure its quality. Here are some additional definitions that we found on the Web. • “Referential integrity in a...

To communicate cooperatively, speakers must determine what constitutes the common ground with their addressee and adapt their referential choices accordingly. Assessing another person's knowledge requires a social cognition ability termed theory of mind (ToM). This study relies on a novel referential communication task requiring probabilistic inferences of the knowledge already held by an addre...

This study focused on analyzing language function, especially referential function. function used in many kinds of communication, including daily communication. Therefore, this aimed to analyze the as well its elements L’Oreal Paris advertisements. In regards aims study, two theories were applied. The theory proposed by Jakobson (1980: 82) was analyzed transcripts 19 advertisements videos Paris...

The use of language to convey emotional experience is of significant importance to the process of psychotherapy, the diagnosis of problems with emotion and memory, and more generally to any communication that aims to evoke a feeling in the recipient. Bucci’s theory of the referential process (1997) concerns three phases whereby a person activates emotional, or bodily experience (Arousal Phase),...

Referential Communication Tasks offers, in a small format (125 pages), a general survey of experimental settings and scientific background on communication studies centered on specific activities in which the speakers are observed for their ability to achieve tasks rather than solely for their linguistic productions. It thus offers a basic and introductory insight to research and experiments th...

This is a paper to the panel “Conceptualizing the workpractice context of IS” at the ALOIS*2006 conference. It is a position statement concerning workpractice theory as a practical theory. Practice theory is concerned with workpractices and as such an example of “referential pragmatism”. A practical theory intends to be of value to practices and such a theory is seen as an example of “functiona...

Referential integrity underlies the relational representation of objeceoriented structures. The concept of referential integrity in relational databases is hindered by the confusion surrounding both the concept itself and its implementation by relational database management systems (RDBMS). Most of this confusion is caused by the diversity of relational representations for object-oriented struc...

Gestures, particularly pointing, are regarded as important pre-speech acts. Intentional and referential pointing has been shown previously in humans and apes but not in songbirds, although some avian species show cognitive abilities rivaling those of apes, and their brain structures and functions show putative preconditions for referential gestural signaling (i.e. mirror neurons, links of vocal...