contextualism
- noun
- /kənˈtɛkstʃuəlɪzəm/
- Formal
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contextualismo
- The doctrine of contextualism illustrates how cultural backgrounds influence the way events are perceived and understood.
Examples
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The individualism of modernist forms is discarded for contextualism, decoration, and historic symbols.
Academic text (1995) -
Contextualism emphasizes that the meaning of a word depends heavily on the contextualism in which it is used.
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Geographical contextualism attempts to provide a spatial connection among developments.
Academic text (1995) -
"Many issues raised within literary theory," she writes, "have a better claim on the attention of scholars of premodern texts than do contextualism and interpretive anthropology."
Academic text (2005) -
His contextualism is radical since what ultimately guides and warrants our judgments are not the shared standards of a community, nor the most stable inherited norms, however useful and binding these resources may be, but the individual unique qualitative situation that we are in.
Academic text (2016) -
In literary criticism, contextualism argues that understanding the circumstances surrounding a text is crucial for proper interpretation.
How Literal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
contextualism = contextual (transparent) = context + ual + ism
The doctrine-forming suffix '-ism' added to the adjective 'contextual' yields a straightforward meaning 'doctrine concerning contextual considerations'.
Etymology
Contextualism comes from context, built from parts con- 'together' and text 'weave', plus -ism meaning 'belief'. So contextualism is the belief that meaning comes from the 'weave' of words and the situation, which is why context is central to understanding something.