Contextomy: the art of quoting out of context
Contextomy: the art of quoting out of context
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DOI：
10.1177/0163443705053974
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发表时间：
2005-07-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
McGlone, MS
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作者：
McGlone, MS
“语境断章取义”指的是有选择地从原始语言语境中摘录单词，从而扭曲了来源的本意，这种做法通常被称为“断章取义”。当代大众传媒运用语境法来宣传产品、诋毁公众人物和滥用修辞。语境化的引语不仅会使受众对引语者的意图产生错误的印象，而且还会在引语被还原到原初语境时影响对引语的后续解读。作者在分析保守派政治家在美国取消平权行动计划的运动中引用马丁·路德·金牧师的话时，描述了这种反直觉的结果。
'Contextomy' refers to the selective excerpting of words from their original linguistic context in a way that distorts the source's intended meaning, a practice commonly referred to as 'quoting out of context'. Contextomy is employed in contemporary mass media to promote products, defame public figures and misappropriate rhetoric. A contextomized quotation not only prompts audiences to form a false impression of the source's intentions, but can contaminate subsequent interpretation of the quote when it is restored to its original context. The author delineates this counterintuitive consequence of contextomy in an analysis of conservative politicians' quotation of Rev. Martin Luther King in their campaigns to eliminate affirmative action programs in the US.