entextualisation

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɛnˈtɛkst.jʊ.æl.aɪˌzeɪ.ʃʌn/

Noun

entextualisation (plural entextualisations)

  1. A process of formal study of writings, removing texts from their context thus rendering them coherent, effective and memorable.
    • 1996, H S Pyper, David As Reader: 2 Samuel 12:1-15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood:
      It is in the entextualisation of the perlocutionary aspect of his reaction to the woman's speeches that we will find the answer.
    • 2000, Hugh R. Trappes-Lomax, editor, Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics:
      The key words here are entextualisation, transposition and recontextualisation.
    • 2005, David F. Ford, Ben Quash, Janet Martin Soskice, editors, Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-first Century:
      Texts...taken out of one context (entextualisation) which is a simultaneous placing in a new context (contextualisation).

References

Speech Community 1999 Ben Rampton King’s College London, (Bauman & Briggs 1990:73-4; see also Silverstein & Urban (eds) 1996; Spitulnik 1997).