indexicalisation

English

Etymology

indexical +‎ -isation

Noun

indexicalisation (plural indexicalisations)

1. The act or process of indicating; an indication.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-wide, page 15:

     While this might seem a plausible figure and an indexicalisation of the global importance of this term, the inflated number is not trustworthy, and the actual number would have been much lower.