salience
IPA: sˈeɪɫiʌns
noun
- The condition of being salient.
- A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
- (social sciences, linguistics) Relative importance based on context.
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Examples of "salience" in Sentences
- It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages.
- But these issues will gain salience when the economy recovers and energy prices go back up.
- This is interesting stuff, but I’m not sure it indicates that abortion and gay marriage have fallen in salience nearly enough.
- If political salience is the question -- more rather than less -- wouldn't it be more fruitful to speak directly about politics through essays, op-eds, and speeches than to distort one's "creative" work by bending it to the political winds?
- Further research is required to determine whether the change is simply associated with short-term increases in consumption from a perceived novelty of new pictures on trays, or if the images are generating long-term salience in students' minds.
- The first of these, called the salience imbalance theory3, solves the problem of feature selection by positing that metaphors involve comparisons between topics and vehicles that exhibit an imbalance in the saliency of the properties the creator of the metaphor wishes to hilghight.
- They see three domains “growing in salience with the turn toward networked public culture: 1) amateur and non-market production, 2) networked collectivities for producing and sharing culture, 3) niche and special-interest groups, and 4) aesthetics of parody, remix, and appropriation.”
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