entextualisation

UK/ɛnˈtɛkst.jʊ.æl.aɪˌzeɪ.ʃʌn/

noun

A process of formal study of writings, removing texts from their context thus rendering them coherent, effective and memorable.

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Meanings

nounentextualisation (plural entextualisations)

plural entextualisations

  1. A process of formal study of writings, removing texts from their context thus rendering them coherent, effective and memorable.

    The key words here are entextualisation, transposition and recontextualisation.

    2000, Hugh R. Trappes-Lomax, editor, Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics
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    It is in the entextualisation of the perlocutionary aspect of his reaction to the woman's speeches that we will find the answer.

    1996, H S Pyper, David As Reader: 2 Samuel 12:1-15 and the Poetics of Fatherhood

    Texts...taken out of one context (entextualisation) which is a simultaneous placing in a new context (contextualisation).

    2005, David F. Ford, Ben Quash, Janet Martin Soskice, editors, Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-first Century
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APA

entextualisation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entextualisation

MLA

“entextualisation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entextualisation. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entextualisation,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entextualisation.

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