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The collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category..
Specifically, the senior author, after much close study and a long period of familiarization, used judgments to accomplish three qualitative (semantic) tasks: (1) identification: in which institutionally relevant words were culled from the text andmarked for analysis; (2) stemming: in which different forms of the same word (singular vs. pluralforms, conjugational differences in verb forms, etc.) were reduced to common word stems; (3) synonymification: in which words that are used more or less interchangeably, were collapsed together into one common linguistic category. ( John W. Mohr and Brooke Neely, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Modeling Foucault : dualities of power in institutional fields)
Use synonymification when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Synonymification means The collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Specifically, the senior author, after much close study and a long period of familiarization, used judgments to accomplish three qualitative (semantic) tasks: (1) identification: in which institutionally relevant words were culled from the text andmarked for analysis; (2) stemming: in which different forms of the same word (singular vs. pluralforms, conjugational differences in verb forms, etc.) were reduced to common word stems; (3) synonymification: in which words that are used more or less interchangeably, were collapsed together into one common linguistic category. ( John W. Mohr and Brooke Neely, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Modeling Foucault : dualities of power in institutional fields)
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