Literalization

Quick meaning: Literalization is a noun meaning The act or process of literalizing.

Meaning

The act or process of literalizing.

Example Sentences

One suspects, however, that it was accidental here, or unconscious, just as it’s likely that Hinton’s echo of the testimonial frame Salinger used in “The Catcher in the Rye” (“If you really want to hear about it”) wasn’t consciously intended, nor was Hinton’s literalization of Holden’s “If a body catch a body coming through the rye” into the rescue of a group of children from a burning church.

Word Forms

• literalizations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include explicitization, lexicalization, explicitisation, realization, actualization, textualization.

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