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Portuguese term or phrase:	ressemantizando
English translation:	(is being) given a new meaning/reinterpreted/resemanticised
Entered by:	Marlene Curtis

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14:01 Dec 16, 2010

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Social Sciences - Anthropology / terminology -

Portuguese term or phrase: ressemantizando

Would appreciate any ideas for this word, within this context.Many thks.

Trabalho este que está se ressemantizando desde o processo colonizador inicial. Do trabalho duro, pesado, árduo e com a terra, hoje se entende trabalho de uma forma mais ampla, sendo o trabalho intelectual reconhecido.

ANDREW HUNT KudoZ activity Questions: 321 (none open) (15 without valid answers) (7 closed without grading) Answers: 192 Brazil
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(is being) given a new meaning/reinterpreted/resemanticised

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Antonio Gramsci and the Palabra Verdadera: The Political Discourse ...
by K Bruhn - 1999 - Cited by 36 - Related articles
Not to invent a new language, but to give it new contextual meaning [resemantizar] .... I am talking about a postmodern language that, paradoxically, feeds ...
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resist, oppose, resemanticise [resemantizar] or reinterpret the dominant .

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:4BgRtv_fh2AJ:socia...

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Marlene Curtis
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Local time: 20:44

Grading comment

Thks Marlene, I liked yr answer best.
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resemanticizing

Gilla Evans

(is being) given a new meaning/reinterpreted/resemanticised

Marlene Curtis

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18 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

resemanticizing

Explanation:
Or if you don't like this word (which I don't really) you could paraphrase as "changing its meaning".

But the word is used.

An example:

http://lap.sagepub.com/content/37/1/62.abstract

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Note added at 19 mins (2010-12-16 14:21:10 GMT)
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In your sentence you might want to say it "is being resemanticized"...

Gilla Evans
Local time: 01:44
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(is being) given a new meaning/reinterpreted/resemanticised

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 20:44
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

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Thks Marlene, I liked yr answer best.

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PRO (3): Gilla Evans, Ivan Rocha, Marlene Curtis

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Dec 21, 2010 - Changes made by Marlene Curtis:
Level	Non-PRO => PRO
Dec 21, 2010 - Changes made by Marlene Curtis:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term

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