relabelling

As far as they are concerned Clute is simply relabelling the literary mode they would happily call fantasy, and it's hard to see much value in choosing his coinage over the more straightforward term given that it comes from the same root, carries the same denotative and connotative baggage and is distinguished only by the elevated register that it garners from the exotic ending -- fantastika rather than fantastic.

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

The application of a stereotype to a genre and the subsequent relabelling of every work that doesn't fit that stereotype as not really part of the genre?

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

As far as they are concerned Clute is simply relabelling the literary mode they would happily call fantasy, and it's hard to see much value in choosing his coinage over the more straightforward term given that it comes from the same root, carries the same denotative and connotative baggage and is distinguished only by the elevated register that it garners from the exotic ending -- fantastika rather than fantastic.

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

The application of a stereotype to a genre and the subsequent relabelling of every work that doesn't fit that stereotype as not really part of the genre?

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Falling back on my recent insights on how Anatolian-Tocharian emerged out of my model note too my later relabelling of "eventive" as "progressive" in this model, I realize one interesting motivation for a conjectural loss of this participle.

The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009

Falling back on my recent insights on how Anatolian-Tocharian emerged out of my model note too my later relabelling of "eventive" as "progressive" in this model, I realize one interesting motivation for a conjectural loss of this participle.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

But, rather than take the argument head on and expose it for the dissembling that it is, Hague sidesteps it, dismissing this by saying that "this simple relabelling has little, if any effect on the substance."

The Hague speech Richard 2007

But, rather than take the argument head on and expose it for the dissembling that it is, Hague sidesteps it, dismissing this by saying that "this simple relabelling has little, if any effect on the substance."

Archive 2007-07-01 Richard 2007

Nor, as Dembski makes plane, will their commitment to side stepping constitutional barriers by creative relabelling.

A Post-Wedge World 2005

Which basically means that anyone with a quack remedy can get it onto store shelves by simply relabelling it to use the exemption.

question 2005