Recontextualize

Word RECONTEXTUALIZE
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Definitions and meanings of "Recontextualize"

What do we mean by recontextualize?

To place or view (a work of literature or art, for example) in a new or unfamiliar context, especially in order to suggest a different interpretation. transitive verb

To set in a new context. verb

To set in a new context.

Transitive verb 1. A process that extracts text, signs or meaning from its original context (decontextualization) in order to introduce it into another context. Since the meaning of texts and signs depend on their context, recontextualization implies a change of meaning, and often of the communicative purpose too. Recontextualization at three different levels: 1) Intratextual 2) Intertextual 3) Interdiscursive. 2. The dynamic transfer-and-transformation of something from one discourse/text-in-context...to another. Urban Dictionary

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The word "recontextualize" in example sentences

Beginning on September 11, he set out to help recontextualize the Holocaust within the Arab-Israeli struggle by writing a book about Arabs who helped Jews during the Holocaust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On my walk home I decided I'd see if I could recontextualize these posters 'visual power with messages that speak to our present political roadblock. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I haven't been following your story for a long while yet, but from I can tell you seem to be trying to recontextualize the experience of playing and listening to the organ. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Complex solutions (reduce abuse by reducing poverty and rebuilding the family, reduce bullying by diversity and education, recontextualize violence as inappropriate in more circumstances) are harder to conceive and immeasurably harder to implement, especially when public policy ideas must be sold in six-second sound bites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But, these posters – which recontextualize Shakespeare against “the rural Canadian experience” – were made as a self-promotion piece (translation: for fun). ❋ The Nag (2008)

And I try to use as much of the performance space as possible and try to recontextualize the rooms in as many ways as I can. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though they may have readied themselves to make a smaller commercial impact, there is a slightly resigned quality to the back end — a lingering echo of their desire to recontextualize the popular, by virtue of their very existence along its margins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the first day each student got an “artifact”–an object that they had to recontextualize in their shared world, which meant they had to by the end of week one, with their worlds fairly complete, to turn in two to four paragraphs on how that object fit into their milieu. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To be more precise, although I've kept several basic points e.g., Scott's implicit critique of private judgement, his interest in tradition, his rejection of the evangelical "godly child", I've had to reword or recontextualize all of them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or recontextualize it in an “ironically patronizing” framework. opinion Says: ❋ Unknown (2007)

The exhibit's curator attempted to recontextualize every piece, and in this podcast you'll hear about a few of these efforts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Look how dishonestly the Mother Jones blog purports to recontextualize the quotes especially the second one. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Citizen journalist needs to be recontextualize as “someone with something to say” and ultimately into action. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The linguist George Lakoff has argued that we need to unpack and recontextualize the big metaphors behind political rhetorics. ❋ Lemon Hound (2007)

Resistant art of this type, if it incorporates copyrighted works, does so without permission, but is also not likely to be considered transformative because of its lack of direct critical commentary on the original; at most, it will recontextualize the original, like putting a urinal in an art gallery. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2006)

“There is extreme power in the arrangement of images, and postmodern art uses [recontextualization] as a tool all the time to construct new meanings.” “Found Magazine,” created by Davy [Rothbart] and Jason [Bitner] and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York City, collects and catalogs found notes, photos, and other interesting items, publishing them in an irregularly-issued magazine, in books, and on its website. Their entire publication is based on the process of recontextualization. ❋ Jrskow (2011)

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