contextualization
noun
the act or an instance of putting something in a particular context; explanation.
recontextualization
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a word derived from
contextualization.
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a word derived from
recontextualize.
recontextualizeverb (used with object)to place in a new or different context so as to bring out a different meaning, create a different effect, etc.
Example Sentences
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I had goose bumps hearing Williams’s fracturing and recontextualization of it.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
The designers also often choose artists as inspiration, and this time it was Oppenheim, whose work they said served as “a central point of reference for the collection’s recontextualization of traditional codes of dress.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
But I was mightily impressed with the way Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed new film version of “West Side Story” cracked the dramatic code of the song with ingenious recontextualization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Some of the excellent density of “Random Acts of Flyness” owes to the show’s fond explosions of visual noise and its recontextualization of stock effects.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2018
But the immediate repurposing and recontextualization of the media that we're all paying attention to has basically become a crucial part of how we consume that media in the first place.
From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2016
