单词 | processual |
释义 | processualadj. 1. Roman Law. Relating to a legal process, procedural. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [adjective] processive1622 processal1645 processual1851 1851 G. Long in Cicero Orationes I. 171 (note) There are also ‘stipulationes judiciales’..and ‘stipulationes praetoriae’,..which are of various kinds. One kind was used for processual purposes. 1875 E. Poste in tr. Gaius Elem. Rom. Law (ed. 2) iii. Comm. 401 The principal function of the Adstipulator..seems to have been processual agency. 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 245 (note) These two pars. deal with what has been called necessary or processual novation, in contradistinction to the voluntary or conventional novation described in those immediately preceding. 1931 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 51 254 G. La Pira has devoted a long and careful study to the private nature of the procedure introduced by the senatus consultum de repetundis recorded on the ‘Stele of Augustus’ and to the processual content of the enactment in general. 2. a. Social Sciences. Relating to or involving a process rather than discrete events. Also: designating or relating to a scientific approach to methodology. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [adjective] > terms relating to language change or development primitive1687 inorganic1861 polygenetic1863 anomalistic1881 sandhi1888 language contact1911 processual1918 neo-linguistic1937 superstrate1958 adstrate1963 adstratal1968 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > process processual1918 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 23 636 We must therefore recognize in each of our four orders of study a sequence leading from the wholly depictive extreme of science to the thoroughly mechanistic or processual one. 1957 R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) ii. ix. 316 An instructive processual analysis of the formation of sub-groups. 1977 Word 28 295 Since understanding sentences, and generating others, in the language described implies constant switches from process to system and from system to process..he will have to find the most reasonable compromise between the requirements of systematic and processual simplicity. 1997 Theory & Society 26 707 In Elias's writings, a processual methodology is wedded to an encompassing theory of social power. b. Archaeology. Designating, advocating, or relating to an approach to archaeology which uses scientific methodology to explain cultural change and variability, and views societies as sets of interacting systems which can be reconstructed with reference to patterns in archaeological evidence. Cf. post-processual adj. at post- prefix 2a(b)(iv)(2).Processual archaeology is associated especially with the American archaeologists of the 1960s and 1970s; it is also called New Archaeology (cf. new adj. and n. Compounds 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > of or relating to archaeology > of or relating to types of or branches of archaeographical1799 archaeomagnetic1897 archaeozoological1938 archaeobotanical1954 processual1958 archaeometric1963 processualist1970 1958 G. R. Willey & P. Phillips Method & Theory in Amer. Anthropol. 5 In the context of archaeology, processual interpretation..implies an attempt to discover regularities in the relationships given by the methods of culture-historical integration. 1968 L. Binford in Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 24 265 (title) Some comments on historical versus processual archeology. 1994 New Scientist 6 Aug. 41/1 Parallel to the behaviourists' efforts to turn their field of psychology into hard science, the ‘processual’ school of archaeology demanded scrupulous data gathering and forbade all but the most rigorously constructed interpretations. 2003 R. Chapman Archaeol. of Complexity iii. 33 Ethnographic analogy and the direct inference of social organization from material traces of the past were two of the central activities of North American processual archaeology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1851 |
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