Xenization
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The borrowing and integration of foreign linguistic elements into a language. uncountable
"The article deals with the basic categories of the elevated style and the tactics to implement them: 1) techniques that help to avoid the associations that do not correspond to the idea of the beautiful; 2) various types of amplification that make speech ample. The techniques of the elevated pronunciation style form a system that is integrated into the mechanism of elevating. Such techniques are slow speech tempo, as well as the xenization of pronunciation by means of orthoepic borrowings from culturally prestigious languages."
- 2 The process of integrating an organism into an environment containing other types of organisms. uncountable
"A.xenization was accomplished by rinsing the worms 3 times in sterile distilled water, followed by their transfer to 10 ml. antibiotic solution (1,000 units potassium penicillin G and 100 y streptomycin sulphate per ml.);"
- 3 The act of spending time in a foreign culture. uncountable
"Xenization is the act of traveling alone as a stranger in a foreign land. When one writer was 17, he traveled alone to Europe for the first time, to wash dishes in Gstaad, Switzerland, for the summer."
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More examples"The article deals with the basic categories of the elevated style and the tactics to implement them: 1) techniques that help to avoid the associations that do not correspond to the idea of the beautiful; 2) various types of amplification that make speech ample. The techniques of the elevated pronunciation style form a system that is integrated into the mechanism of elevating. Such techniques are slow speech tempo, as well as the xenization of pronunciation by means of orthoepic borrowings from culturally prestigious languages."
Etymology
From xeno- + -ization.
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