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to textualize

to textualize

7.9
To change speech, images, or ideas into written text
  • verb
  • /ˈtɛkstʃuəˌlaɪz/
translation icon : textualizar
  • The voice of Black Hawk in An Autobiography, and white responses to that voice, tell us much about how Native American and other non-white voices became textualized within white American systems of discourse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  • textualized marketplace
  • textualized community
  • partially textualized

Examples

  • Nevertheless, however textualized an oral community might be, it continued to exercise its residual effects on the lettered members of its community.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Through careful negotiation, the essence of the meaning of others is captured and described in "textualized" form for a specific audience.

    Academic text (2002)

  • I contributed the ability to textualize their lives in a way they had not done to this point in their lives.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The only power remaining to him is to become textualized.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The stream-of-consciousness narration textualizes total involvement with the tale in a most creative way.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Whenever what is loosely called "oral literature" is textualized, what results is a "third" entity that is not to be confused with either live oral performance, on the one hand, nor with works of elite literature on the other.

    Academic text (2016)

  • In effect, the diglossia or dialectical encounter between nonliterate and literate cultures partially "textualized" the oral culture.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The villagers operate in an oral medium, but they are receptive to becoming textualized by informative discussions on Neoplatonic love and harmony.

    Academic text (1992)

  • In its stead, the idea that the Shi'i ulama were fundamentally against the state and tyranny was textualized and at the same time disarticulated from the very material conditions that caused its growth.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The teacher asked the students to textualize their thoughts on the novel in written form.

Synonyms

to transcribe
vsto textualize
1 4.4

To write words from one alphabet into another

represents speech, images, or ideas as printed or written text

How Complete

to transcribe
27 4.2
to document
365 3.4
to textualize
7.9
to paraphrase
64 4.1
to summarize
  • US
90 3.0
to note
951 1.6

Surface Forms

textualize infinitive
textualized past
textualized past participle
textualizing present participle
textualizes third person singular

Morphology

textualize = textual (transparent) = text + ual + ize

Meaning is directly derived from 'text' → 'textual' (relating to text) + the verb-forming suffix '-ize' meaning 'to make or render', so the formation is clear.

Etymology

Textualize comes from text, which goes back to the Latin textus meaning 'to weave' and is the same root as textile, so to textualize is like 'weaving' speech, pictures, or ideas into written words.