typification
- noun
- /ˌtɪpɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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tipificación
- In literature, typification helps readers understand characters by representing them as typical examples of certain traits.
Examples
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Typification results in the well-known phenomenon that texts exhibit generic structure.
Academic text (2002) -
By using temporal analysis, in other words, we assume that writers' work is subject to typification.
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The greater the social distance between actors, the greater the degree of typification in their modes of communication.
Academic text (1990) -
Negative characterization also relies on typification, with the same tendency to personify abstraction.
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In the face-to-face setting, communication between actors whose social positions are unequal will rely on typification to the extent that their relative status limits direct, day-to-day experience of one another.
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Again, typification is an aspect of praxis across the cultural divide, and once again, the meanings are relatively open rather than fixed, as humor often cuts the seriousness of the encounter.
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The public setting of the front region makes actors of different social categories available to one another, but the communication between performers and their audience is mediated by typification, since they are normally contemporaries whose relative social positions and daily routines restrict the degree of their face-to-face contact.
Academic text (1990) -
Because Kaolack political oratory is oriented both toward the national leaders, absent contemporaries, and toward the ongoing relations between local politicians and their followers, the degree of typification, or the manner in which it is used, will vary accordingly.
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While patrons and clients in the city of Kaolack interact as consociates, public oratory uses typification to represent the hegemonic interests of more powerful groups and individuals, unseen contemporaries.
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The artist's painting is a typification of modern society's struggles, capturing the essence of contemporary urban life.
Synonyms
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3.5
A picture or model that shows what something looks like
64
4.4
A description of the main qualities of a person or thing in a clear, detailed way
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4.1
An act of showing someone or something in a certain way
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4.4
A description using words that shows what something is like
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6.7
An example that shows something, or the act of showing something using an example
To use signs or pictures to show ideas and feelings
The act of using a sign to show an idea, feeling, or belief
How Representative
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7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word typification comes from the simple word type, which comes from an old Greek word typos meaning 'a mark' or 'model'. The -fication part means 'making', so typification is 'making into a type' — showing something as a usual example or symbol.