entextualization.

A process that turns speech or discourse into a bounded text that can be detached and circulated.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• entextualization of speech
• entextualization by transcription
• acts of entextualization

On the page

The transcript's entextualization gives selected remarks the appearance of a stable record.

The study follows the entextualization of an interview passage before its reuse in a report.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: rare (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: UCSB-hosted peer-reviewed article directly read: extraction of discourse as a bounded circulable text; inscription into writing is one mode rather than all entextualization. Institutional transcripts, media and academic representation supply actual analytical uses. Cambridge abstract supports interactional usefulness. Individually useful in research, criticism, methodology or conceptual analysis. Definitions and examples are original; no mood or intensity assigned to neutral analytical concepts. Commonness is an editorial estimate, not a frequency statistic. Writing functions: making speech into portable textual material, authority of institutional transcripts.