Transformationalism

Quick meaning: Transformationalism is a noun meaning (linguistics) Adherence to transformational grammars.

Meaning

(linguistics) Adherence to transformational grammars.

More Meanings

1. (political science) A political theory that emphasizes assimilation as a process of global cultural convergence.
2. (theology) A fusion of evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, and ecumenism that became prominent in the early 21st century; transformational Christianity.
3. (sociology, education) A sociological and educational theory that focuses on the process of learned concepts and skills to reframe and transform unthinking culturally-generated assumptions and cognitive categories.
4. (political science, historical) The belief in the transformative power of Confucian culture as a superior system that can be universally applied to all people.
5. (biology, historical) A theory proposed by Robinet in the 18ᵗʰ century that posits a single, created prototype for all species of plants and animals.

Example Sentences

Thus one might speak here of syntactic transformationalism on the one hand and semantic transformationalism on the other.

Unlike ecumenism, transformationalism is not an expression of denominational uniformity, but an expression of interdenominational alliances.

Transformationalism may describe the reality of religion in America, but normatively speaking it fails to reveal anything about the quality or implications of those changes.

It is certainly true that unconstrained transformationalism is incompatible with the basic fact that words constitute special morphological units that are distinct from phrases and sentences.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transformationalist, transformationism, transformationist, generativism, generativist, transitionism.

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