| 释义 |
contextualize, v.|kənˈtɛkstjuːəlaɪz|
[f. contextual a. + -ize.]
trans. To place in, or treat as part of, a context; spec. to study (phonemes, words, etc.) in contexts. So conˌtextualiˈzation, the act or result of contextualizing; conˈtextualized ppl. a.
1934J. R. Firth Papers in Ling. (1957) ii. 5 You contextualize your alternants and so arrive at your phoneme-units or functional units. Ibid., By contextualization is here meant, not only the recognition of the various phonetic contexts in which the phonemes occur, but the further identification of phonemes by determining their lexical and grammatical functions. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. i. 23 In his study of behaviour the anthropologist works by contextualization. Ibid. vii. 241 They hold to their own, but regard them as pragmatic and contextualized. 1959M. A. K. Halliday Lang. Chinese ‘Secret Hist. Mongols’ ii. 10 The complete text has meaning in the social context in which it operates, and this is to be stated by the procedure of ‘contextualization’. 1963C. Irving et al. Scandal '63 xx. 224 Blezinger used an oblique question to find how people ‘contextualised’ the Affair. Ibid. 225 A sample drawn from the whole population would have shown even less political contextualisation. |