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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
recontextualise .
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Examples
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This is a postmodernist christian movement which, being postmodernist, is impossible to pin down but is characterised by an openness to various kinds of "spirituality" which are recontextualised for the culture of today.
"The Shack" 2009
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This is a postmodernist christian movement which, being postmodernist, is impossible to pin down but is characterised by an openness to various kinds of "spirituality" which are recontextualised for the culture of today.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Emergent, post modernist and transcendent recontextualised spiritualist church?
"The Shack" 2009
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Here it is recontextualised as being part of the Sandman universe, but not much more beyond that is achieved.
Archive 2008-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2008
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We can discern an instantly recognisable feature of SF here in the world-building effect of language, whether it's actual technological jargon ( "ripped", "installed"), pseudo-scientific portmanteau ( "meme-pattern"), or a known word recontextualised as the signifier of an invention ( "Teds").
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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No part of my maternal instincts felt that the child was at risk in any way, shape, or form, but I still recontextualised the dialogue.
Slightly dodgy conversations out of context ailbhe 2008
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We can discern an instantly recognisable feature of SF here in the world-building effect of language, whether it's actual technological jargon ( "ripped", "installed"), pseudo-scientific portmanteau ( "meme-pattern"), or a known word recontextualised as the signifier of an invention ( "Teds").
Strange Fiction 6 Hal Duncan 2006
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Here it is recontextualised as being part of the Sandman universe, but not much more beyond that is achieved.
The Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman Adam Whitehead 2008
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It is proposed that the current visual symbols be recontextualised to ensure that they reflect the totality of South African history and culture, and that a visitor exhibition, information and tourist centre be located at the Union Buildings as part of promoting the new corporate identity of a democratic South Africa.
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"It is proposed that the current visual symbols be recontextualised to ensure that they reflect the totality of South African history and culture," Chikane told reporters in Pretoria.
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