TY - JOUR
AU - McGlone, Matthew S.
AB - ‘Contextomy’ refers to the selective excerpting of words from                 their original linguistic context in a way that distorts the source’s                 intended meaning, a practice commonly referred to as ‘quoting out of                 context’. Contextomy is employed in contemporary mass media to promote                 products, defame public figures and misappropriate rhetoric. A contextomized                 quotation not only prompts audiences to form a false impression of the                 source’s intentions, but can contaminate subsequent interpretation of the                 quote when it is restored to its original context. The author delineates this                 counterintuitive consequence of contextomy in an analysis of conservative                 politicians’ quotation of Rev. Martin Luther King in their campaigns to                 eliminate affirmative action programs in the US.
TI - Contextomy: the art of quoting out of context
JO - Media, Culture & Society
DO - 10.1177/0163443705053974
DA - 2005-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/contextomy-the-art-of-quoting-out-of-context-qTbMSgmv0W
SP - 511
EP - 522
VL - 27
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -