recontextualization
New interpretive setting
Recontextualization is placing something in a new context, changing how it's understood.
A quote recontextualized loses its original meaning; a museum artifact recontextualized becomes art rather than tool.
The word appears often in academic and media criticism: The film's recontextualization of 1950s imagery comments on modern nostalgia.
The verb is recontextualize.
Unauthorized claiming or allocation
- remixAltered version of recording
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- pasticheImitative artistic tribute
homage · adaptation · reimagining · repurposing · assemblage · quotation · bricolage · mashup
Formal communication on subjects
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- DerridaGrammatology's French author
appropriation · citation · intertextuality · semiotics · interpretation · hermeneutics · deconstruction · meaning-making
Worldwide economic and cultural integration
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
- translationConverting between languages
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
hybridization · fusion · adaptation · indigenization · syncretism · diaspora · migration · cross-cultural
Structural or contextual shaping
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- narrativeAccount of events
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
clickbait · editing · cropping · selective · manipulation · soundbite · viral · misleading
Prior authoritative example
- statuteEnacted written rule
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- applicationFormal request document
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
analogy · amendment · codification · ruling · constitutional · legislative · judicial · contract
appropriation
Unauthorized claiming or allocation
- remixAltered version of recording
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- samplingExtracting subset for study
pastiche · homage · adaptation · reimagining · repurposing · assemblage · quotation · bricolage · mashup · montage
discourse
Formal communication on subjects
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
Derrida · appropriation · citation · intertextuality · semiotics · interpretation · hermeneutics · deconstruction · meaning-making · scholarly
globalization
Worldwide economic and cultural integration
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
- translationConverting between languages
localization · hybridization · fusion · adaptation · indigenization · syncretism · diaspora · migration · cross-cultural · transposition
framing
Structural or contextual shaping
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- narrativeAccount of events
- propagandaBiased information for influence
misinformation · clickbait · editing · cropping · selective · manipulation · soundbite · viral · misleading · distortion
precedent
Prior authoritative example
- statuteEnacted written rule
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- applicationFormal request document
jurisdiction · analogy · amendment · codification · ruling · constitutional · legislative · judicial · contract · clause
- discoursediscussion, discourse, text analysis, dialogue, cohesion
- copyingcopying, copy, plagiarism, repeating, duplicating
- composition techniquescomposing, arranging, orchestration, harmonization, instrumentation
context, contextual, contextualize, decontextualize, recontextualize, decontextualized, recontextualized, recontextualizing, decontextualizing