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The act or process of considering something in isolation from its situation or environment.

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  • One question that arises is "decontextualization" of practices that emerge from a particular tradition or stance, long standing or otherwise.
  • I had brought along the essay of an American critic, Stephen M. Fjellman, from his book Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America, that proposes the word...
  • This constant decontextualization of issues functions to make his position seem more rational than it is.
  • Quote-mine's are concerned with changing the meaning of a passage through selective editing or decontextualization.
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