recontextualization
- noun
- /ˌriːˌkɒnˌtɛkstəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Jargon
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recontextualización
- Throughout my analysis of the final lines of the Zifar, I have alluded to the process of recontextualization by which the text's compilers and readers transposed others' words into new, emergent contexts.
- the process of recontextualization
Examples
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In today's global society, musical recontextualization is a reality, and as global media allows music to be shared with astonishing ease, it is natural that fusion genres emerge.
Academic text (2011) -
Exotic artifacts have been discussed and exhibited in this century in radically different ways, ranging from extreme aestheticization to attempted recontextualization within the indigenous culture.
Academic text (1998) -
No meaning or interpretation is ever on stable ground, as everything is subject to later recontextualization.
Academic text (2000) -
Morse and Field suggested that the goal of recontextualization is to place the results in the context of established knowledge.
Academic text (2010) -
I believe in dipping into the archive, the reproduction, and recontextualization of images.
Academic text (2012) -
Finally, the concept of recontextualization is defined and used to explain the prevalence of managerialism within the practice of community college administration.
Academic text (2009) -
Again, processes of mediation and recontextualization were at work that more generally characterize the reception of American culture in Europe.
Academic text (1994) -
One cannot, therefore, suppress the objects' own historical processes of production, collection, and recontextualization, and the "unsettled, nomadic existence of these non-Western artifacts."
Academic text (1998) -
When tradition is absolutized, it is precisely Godself who interrupts such rigidity and fosters recontextualization.
Academic text (2006) -
The teacher explained that recontextualization allows students to understand historical events from different perspectives.
Synonyms
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5.1
A process that gives something a new meaning
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6.2
A new meaning people give to something like a song or story
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Thinking about something in a new way to create a different idea
Using cultural objects or images in new ways to change their meaning
Antonyms
- Specialized
Taking something out of its original situation so people look at it alone
How Reinterpreted
Surface Forms
Morphology
recontextualization = recontextualize (semi-transparent) = re + context + ual + ize + ation
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ation' to the verb 'recontextualize'; the action-to-noun conversion is direct.
Etymology
Recontextualization breaks into re- 'again' and context 'the words or situation around something', and you can see context in the familiar word text. So recontextualization is the act of putting something into a new situation so it gains a different meaning.