Definition of self-referential in English:

self-referential

adjective sɛlfrɛfəˈrɛnʃlsɛlf ˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl

(especially of a literary or other creative work) making reference to itself, its author or creator, or their other work.
（尤指文学等创造性作品）自指的
self-referential elements in Donne's poems
多恩的诗里的自指成分。
Example sentencesExamples
- He wishes now to turn away from such hard-edged, self-referential post-modern texts and get into a closer intimacy, a greater communion with his readers, the communion in which lies the main strength of the novel.
- The growing specialisation has fragmented the literature, and the fragments are enclosed in self-referential writing.
- The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes.
- Someday in the not too distant future, a university somewhere will have to teach an entire self-referential literature class about novels starring English teachers in Central Europe.
- If this isn't self-referential enough, the second novel Gabriel is working on is a historical novel set in Newfoundland.
- This is certainly a very self-referential movie, much more than your previous works.
- Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience?
- An unapologetically self-referential author, Levin constantly intertwines his own life with the story he is telling.
- To put it another way, the work is self-referential to the extent that language and the poem are Pastior's only subjects.
- The poetry is in a sense self-referential because it explores the transcendental logics of the poetic process.
- About a year ago I read a critique of weblogs which was positive overall, but which made the criticism that the self-referential style of blogs was a weakness.
- In deconstructive and psychoanalytic readings in particular, this allegedly pure and self-referential language returns to haunt the text's unity, coherence, and independence.
- Contemporary works created in this tradition are therefore necessarily intertextual and self-referential.
- Although actors as spectators reinforces the self-referential theatrical imagery, it adds to the sense of an illustrated lecture.
- While the author is self-conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality.
- This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
- In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction.
- Moreover, our model adds a dimension that is not present in either Belting or Warburg: the idea of art as a self-staging and self-referential project.
- They might begin to take note of the fact that their self-absorbed and self-referential works over the past two decades in particular have made almost no impact.
- The play is also very up-front about being a self-referential, postmodern story-about-stories kind of play, yet manages to do this in a way that's neither academic nor affected.

Derivatives

self-referentiality

noun

By tying Lizzie's claims to an object that she seems to despise, the novel emphasizes the self-referentiality of her desire.
Example sentencesExamples
- An essential element of the text's apparent self-referentiality lies in its elimination of narrative perspective.
- With Joycean self-referentiality, the dedication in her later book alludes to the earliest of her published writing, when her essays were radically feminist and concerned with political and social ethics.
- Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative.
- Conversations across different kinds of institutions about who our students are, what their needs are, and how to best reach them can get lost in basic writing discussions in favor of self-referentiality and the erasure of differences.

self-referentially

adverb

There's no real way to use that self-referentially.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was silly and vain, self-referentially clever and quite utterly ridiculous.

Definition of self-referential in US English:

self-referential

adjectivesɛlf ˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəlself ˌrefəˈren(t)SHəl

1Making reference to itself or oneself.
1. 1.1 (of a literary or other creative work) making reference to itself, its author or creator, or their other work.
  （尤指文学等创造性作品）自指的
  self-referential elements in Donne's poems
  多恩的诗里的自指成分。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In deconstructive and psychoanalytic readings in particular, this allegedly pure and self-referential language returns to haunt the text's unity, coherence, and independence.
  This is certainly a very self-referential movie, much more than your previous works.
  The growing specialisation has fragmented the literature, and the fragments are enclosed in self-referential writing.
  About a year ago I read a critique of weblogs which was positive overall, but which made the criticism that the self-referential style of blogs was a weakness.
  An unapologetically self-referential author, Levin constantly intertwines his own life with the story he is telling.
  Contemporary works created in this tradition are therefore necessarily intertextual and self-referential.
  This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
  The play is also very up-front about being a self-referential, postmodern story-about-stories kind of play, yet manages to do this in a way that's neither academic nor affected.
  Moreover, our model adds a dimension that is not present in either Belting or Warburg: the idea of art as a self-staging and self-referential project.
  In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction.
  While the author is self-conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality.
  Someday in the not too distant future, a university somewhere will have to teach an entire self-referential literature class about novels starring English teachers in Central Europe.
  He wishes now to turn away from such hard-edged, self-referential post-modern texts and get into a closer intimacy, a greater communion with his readers, the communion in which lies the main strength of the novel.
  If this isn't self-referential enough, the second novel Gabriel is working on is a historical novel set in Newfoundland.
  The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes.
  Although actors as spectators reinforces the self-referential theatrical imagery, it adds to the sense of an illustrated lecture.
  They might begin to take note of the fact that their self-absorbed and self-referential works over the past two decades in particular have made almost no impact.
  Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience?
  To put it another way, the work is self-referential to the extent that language and the poem are Pastior's only subjects.
  The poetry is in a sense self-referential because it explores the transcendental logics of the poetic process.

词汇	self-referential
释义	Definition of self-referential in English: self-referential adjective sɛlfrɛfəˈrɛnʃlsɛlf ˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl (especially of a literary or other creative work) making reference to itself, its author or creator, or their other work. （尤指文学等创造性作品）自指的 self-referential elements in Donne's poems 多恩的诗里的自指成分。 Example sentencesExamples He wishes now to turn away from such hard-edged, self-referential post-modern texts and get into a closer intimacy, a greater communion with his readers, the communion in which lies the main strength of the novel. The growing specialisation has fragmented the literature, and the fragments are enclosed in self-referential writing. The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes. Someday in the not too distant future, a university somewhere will have to teach an entire self-referential literature class about novels starring English teachers in Central Europe. If this isn't self-referential enough, the second novel Gabriel is working on is a historical novel set in Newfoundland. This is certainly a very self-referential movie, much more than your previous works. Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience? An unapologetically self-referential author, Levin constantly intertwines his own life with the story he is telling. To put it another way, the work is self-referential to the extent that language and the poem are Pastior's only subjects. The poetry is in a sense self-referential because it explores the transcendental logics of the poetic process. About a year ago I read a critique of weblogs which was positive overall, but which made the criticism that the self-referential style of blogs was a weakness. In deconstructive and psychoanalytic readings in particular, this allegedly pure and self-referential language returns to haunt the text's unity, coherence, and independence. Contemporary works created in this tradition are therefore necessarily intertextual and self-referential. Although actors as spectators reinforces the self-referential theatrical imagery, it adds to the sense of an illustrated lecture. While the author is self-conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality. This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion. In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction. Moreover, our model adds a dimension that is not present in either Belting or Warburg: the idea of art as a self-staging and self-referential project. They might begin to take note of the fact that their self-absorbed and self-referential works over the past two decades in particular have made almost no impact. The play is also very up-front about being a self-referential, postmodern story-about-stories kind of play, yet manages to do this in a way that's neither academic nor affected. Derivatives self-referentiality noun By tying Lizzie's claims to an object that she seems to despise, the novel emphasizes the self-referentiality of her desire. Example sentencesExamples An essential element of the text's apparent self-referentiality lies in its elimination of narrative perspective. With Joycean self-referentiality, the dedication in her later book alludes to the earliest of her published writing, when her essays were radically feminist and concerned with political and social ethics. Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative. Conversations across different kinds of institutions about who our students are, what their needs are, and how to best reach them can get lost in basic writing discussions in favor of self-referentiality and the erasure of differences. self-referentially adverb There's no real way to use that self-referentially. Example sentencesExamples It was silly and vain, self-referentially clever and quite utterly ridiculous. Definition of self-referential in US English: self-referential adjectivesɛlf ˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəlself ˌrefəˈren(t)SHəl 1Making reference to itself or oneself. 1.1 (of a literary or other creative work) making reference to itself, its author or creator, or their other work. （尤指文学等创造性作品）自指的 self-referential elements in Donne's poems 多恩的诗里的自指成分。 Example sentencesExamples In deconstructive and psychoanalytic readings in particular, this allegedly pure and self-referential language returns to haunt the text's unity, coherence, and independence. This is certainly a very self-referential movie, much more than your previous works. The growing specialisation has fragmented the literature, and the fragments are enclosed in self-referential writing. About a year ago I read a critique of weblogs which was positive overall, but which made the criticism that the self-referential style of blogs was a weakness. An unapologetically self-referential author, Levin constantly intertwines his own life with the story he is telling. Contemporary works created in this tradition are therefore necessarily intertextual and self-referential. This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion. The play is also very up-front about being a self-referential, postmodern story-about-stories kind of play, yet manages to do this in a way that's neither academic nor affected. Moreover, our model adds a dimension that is not present in either Belting or Warburg: the idea of art as a self-staging and self-referential project. In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction. While the author is self-conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality. Someday in the not too distant future, a university somewhere will have to teach an entire self-referential literature class about novels starring English teachers in Central Europe. He wishes now to turn away from such hard-edged, self-referential post-modern texts and get into a closer intimacy, a greater communion with his readers, the communion in which lies the main strength of the novel. If this isn't self-referential enough, the second novel Gabriel is working on is a historical novel set in Newfoundland. The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes. Although actors as spectators reinforces the self-referential theatrical imagery, it adds to the sense of an illustrated lecture. They might begin to take note of the fact that their self-absorbed and self-referential works over the past two decades in particular have made almost no impact. Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience? To put it another way, the work is self-referential to the extent that language and the poem are Pastior's only subjects. The poetry is in a sense self-referential because it explores the transcendental logics of the poetic process.
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