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contextualisation

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  • The code commits the SABC to honest reportage, "contextualisation" and presentation of news "by striving to disclose all essential facts and by not suppressing relevant, available facts, or distorting by wrong or improper emphasis".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • It also makes practical suggestions including chunking and contextualisation rather than lists, and other things similar to your A – Z entry.

    P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The ambiguity of “middle of the road” — the fact that it can be read as “conventional” or “mediocre” — binds with the criticism of lack of ambition, and with the “vanguard of British fantasy” contextualisation at the start; it creates a sense that the book is being damned because the reviewer wanted it to be one particular type of fantasy (ambitious, avant-garde) and found it to be another (unambitious, conventional).

    Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

  • She exposes the viewer to the horror, but without any mitigating element of reflection or contextualisation.

    Nancy Spero: no pity 2011

  • This would be similar to playing the first two notes of a Javanese Gamelan scale to a Gamelan player, and then being surprised when they sing the next note up in that particular scale, as opposed to an equal tempered note; it's all about contextualisation.

    World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo 2010

  • It also makes practical suggestions including chunking and contextualisation rather than lists, and other things similar to your A – Z entry.

    P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Oh, also, for a little bit of contextualisation, Chris Livingston is the guy who wrote, posed and print-screened 'Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman' which is a must read for anyone interested in the Half-Life universe.

    More proof of the versatility of 'Obilivion' Ben Abraham 2008

  • Oh, also, for a little bit of contextualisation, Chris Livingston is the guy who wrote, posed and print-screened 'Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman' which is a must read for anyone interested in the Half-Life universe.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • The National Archives of Ireland has arranged for the digitisation, indexing and contextualisation of its most popular records, the census records for 1901 and 1911.

    March 2007 2007

  • The final section looks rather briefly at the manuscript as a cultural artifact, and while interesting enough could have done with a bit of contextualisation with other cultural artifacts.

    December Books 11) Latin Palaeography cavalorn 2007

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