literalization

Examples

• All

• Nevertheless, in the process of literalization in metamorphosis, we must stop before the metamorphosis is complete if the metaphor is to be preserved and (A) is to remain unlike (B) (98).

  Academic text (1996)

• Being drunk became, for Crane, a kind of grim literalization of the freedom that came with being modern.

• The paradoxical question suggested by this kind of literary metamorphosis is the question of the limit of the sign's literalization.

  Academic text (1996)

• And they eat people, and the literalization of fantasy (children, particularly, it is argued, usually have trouble distinguishing between fact and fantasy).

  Academic text (1997)

• "This literalization of the dancer's presence ruptures the systems of symbolic coding of movement by which dance normally produces signs, and Hay's dance is, therefore, "a message without a code."

  Academic text (1999)

• Hence, Anders errs in suggesting that in "The Metamorphosis" the literalization of the metaphor is actually accomplished,

  Academic text (1996)

• If, Corngold explains, the metaphor designates something (A) as something (B) -- something in the quality of something not itself -- then in a literalization of the metaphor we attempt to experience in (B) more and more qualities that can be accommodated by (A) (97-98).

  Academic text (1996)

• One can no longer tell whether this switchboard of the soul is the literalization or realization of interior states (the delusion of reference of the influencing machine) or the impact of the literal technologies of mass-mediated public culture (machinic influence).

  Academic text (1997)

• The artist's work often involves the literalization of emotions, turning feelings into tangible forms that everyone can understand.

• His poetry exemplifies the literalization of abstract ideas, making complex thoughts accessible to a wider audience.

Synonyms

L

literal interpretation

vsliteralization

3 4.9

People understand words in their exact meaning without hidden or deeper ideas

is an ongoing process of interpreting strictly by exact meaning

L

literalism

vsliteralization

2 7.4

A habit of understanding words in their simple direct meaning rather than a deeper meaning

is a deliberate interpretive process rather than an automatic habit

L

literalness

vsliteralization

1 6.9

A way of taking words or actions exactly as they are without using imagination

is the active process of interpreting without figurative sense

L

literality

vsliteralization

7.9

A way of understanding words exactly without looking for hidden meaning

focuses on the interpretive action rather than on mere exactness of meaning

Antonyms

M

metaphorical

34 6.6

Language that describes one thing by comparing it to another, not its real meaning

F

figurative

9 6.4

Using words in a non-literal way to create images

How Literal

literalization

• US

8.2

nonliterality

9.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology