dialecticalization
nounEtymology From dialectical + -ization.
› The act or process of making dialectical.
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The process of (a language) separating into dialects.
- Caxton noted: "And that comyn englysshe that is spoken in one shire varyeth from a nother."^([sic])¹⁹ But political, social, and technical forces can arrest dialecticalization and impose a standard speech, as tends to occur in large states.1969, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston University Papers on Africa, volume 3, page 43:
- This is a little earlier than we would expect the exodus from the Sahara to have begun, but it is possible that dialecticalization began before the southward migration.1971, Carleton Taylor Hodge, Papers on the Manding, →ISBN, page 61:
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- According to everything I've ever read, it is the opposite: English is undergoing a *unification* of dialects, especially between American and British variëties^([sic]). English is growing and diversifying only in capabilities and vocabulary to the extent that is it picking these up, while it is beïng^([sic]) assimilated into the whole of World English too quickly to be a cause for dialecticalization.1996 December 11, Tom Wier, “Re: Chinese dialect”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet), message-ID <32AF69F3.4EE8@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>:
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The introduction of a dialectic (exchange of arguments or contradiction of ideas) to explore an idea or topic.
- Croce also opposed Hegel’s methodical dialecticalization of distinct aspects of reality, individual facts and empirical concepts,¹⁹⁰ not because of the quaint biases it revealed but because Croce was not a universalist like Hegel, only a partial universalist, lacking also the macro-microcosmos motif; and Croce could not support Hegel’s Naturphilosophie and triadic monism because he believed in a spiritualized dualism.¹⁹¹1958, Calvin Seerveld, Benedetto Croce's Earlier Aesthetic Theories and Literary Criticism: A Critical Philosophical Look at the Development During His Rationalistic Years, →ISBN, page 91:
- In the dynamic and evolutional conception of systemic objects in their evolutiveness is reflected the process of dialecticalization of science.1971, Дијалектика, volume 6, The University of Belgrade, page 35:
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- In referring to the Manichean model, I would like to suggest that this form of [a]ntithesis, in its absolute dialecticalization of any given problem, is, in Césaire’s [t]erms, further amplified by its hyperbolic form.1982, The American Association of Teachers of French, The French Review, page 279:
- Even the “dialecticalization of all categories” that Brecht spoke of, the signet of the modern age, would not eliminate sense and meaning, but only emphasize their ambivalence, since it completely retains the binary structure.1983, Amerikastudien, volume 28, page 182:
- […] presupposes, on the one hand, the conscious aspiration to more profound “dialecticalization” of historical materialism, i.e., to a more profound philosophical grasping of the formational logic of history from the standpoint of the contemporary level of the development of the theory of dialectics.1986, Soviet Studies in Philosophy, M. E. Sharpe, page 31:
- What ought to be surprising, rather, is that the opposition should have been made at all and that it should be maintained apart from its own dialecticalization, like a concession made on the side, through on a major point, to the understanding. […] A prescription like Equivocate (or: Dialecticalize) every phrase, including the present one signifies that the operators of equivocacy and of dialectics must be applied to the prescription itself. To state it otherwise, in philosophical discourse, every phrase that presents itself as the rule of this discourse must be submitted to equivocation and dialecticalization and be put back into play. This self-mocking prescription corresponds to scepticism.1988 [1983], Georges Van Den Abbeele, transl., The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, University of Minnesota Press, translation of Le Différend by Lyotard, Jean-François, in Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, →ISBN, pages 90, 97:
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Marxism The initiation of dialectic (conflict), especially class conflict.
- One masterly way to avoid that danger is by a cultural revolution, that dialecticalization which has yesterday, today or tomorrow and which avoids becoming static because it is an ongoing effort for change.1973, Harriet Burns Sherwin, Paulo Freire: His Philosophy and Pedagogy and Its Implication for American Education, The University of California, Berkeley, page 224:
- This theoretical construct, produced by a de-dialecticalization of the concepts, reveals the identification of two phenomena which Marx made a point of differentiating: capitalist socialization and socialist socialization.1976, Telos, Telos Press, page 83: