单词 | regionalism |
释义 | regionalismn. 1. Chiefly Politics. The theory or practice of regional organization; esp. regional government or control as opposed to centralization; (later also) the grouping of several states, countries, etc. into a larger region for political, economic, or administrative purposes. Also: support for or advocacy of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > regionalism or decentralization territoriality1771 centrifugalism1844 decentralization1846 territorialization1850 provincialization1866 regionalism1871 subnationalism1881 regionalization1919 subsidiarity1936 centrifugality1957 1871 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 298 Regionalism, as it was called..was the new spectre of the day. 1887 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 107 The spirit of local individualism,—in politics somewhat inharmoniously dubbed ‘regionalism’. 1923 G. M. Trevelyan Manin & Venetian Revol. xiv. 244 He abandoned his Republican faith and his Venetian ‘regionalism’ in view of the new circumstances of Italy. 1943 Social Forces 21 265/2 Regionalism in world politics amounts to the recognition that the national state is too small a political unit in world society. 1962 L. Golding Dict. Local Govt. 332 Regionalism was applied in practice by dividing the country for purposes of civil defence and the administration of other emergency services into twelve large areas. 1974 G. W. Choudhury Last Days United Pakistan i. 1 Emerging Bengali regionalism or sub-nationalism. 2003 Daily Tel. 4 Nov. i. 21/1 Like so much European integration, regionalism casts aside the human and familiar in favour of the abstract and arbitrary. 2. Regional quality, character, or distinctiveness; regionality; esp. the expression of this in literature, art, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > other specific styles mock-heroica1668 far-fetch1813 periodicalism1837 pastoralism1842 book-speech1852 nounism1904 regionalism1909 Time-ese1952 kitchen-sinkery1964 nukespeak1979 1909 N.Y. Times 10 Apr. 217/4 ‘Regionalism’ (by which is meant the movement designed to give expression to the life of the provinces as distinguished from the life of the capital) has been far and away the most significant fact in French literary development during the last dozen years. 1937 Parnassus 9 17/2 We are inclined to think of this new regionalism in art in terms of the Southwestern painters with their emphasis on the mountains and deserts of their section of the country. 1955 Times 7 May 9/4 The regionalism of American writing falls into place beside that of Scotland or Ireland. 1984 Perspecta 21 43 How is a cultural statement made in a modern building? The question is bound up with the impossibility of recreating true regionalism. 2004 Nature 29 Jan. 412/3 The Late Devonian saw an increasing faunal exchange between Euramerica and Gondwana, leading to a loss of faunal regionalism. 3. A linguistic feature peculiar to a particular region. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects Doricism1698 Dorism1698 provincialism1770 cant1802 Patavinitya1814 countyism1839 regionalism1930 1930 Hispania 13 468 That there is a normal pronunciation of Spanish free from regionalisms is the contention of the author of this pamphlet. 1964 Language 40 93 Intellectual leaders of the Seicento..did not hesitate to use, as nonce-forms, regionalisms like parapaglia ‘butterfly’ (based on Bolognese parpaja..) and sfragaro ‘wastrel’ (Calabrese-Sicilian). 1978 Amer. Speech 53 13 The layman applies the term imprecisely to a large body of lexemes including true slang, jargon, regionalisms, and colloquialisms, which are vaguely perceived as slang by such groups as college students. 2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. ii. 42 They did use one regionalism that's found above all in the Bristol area and in parts of south Wales. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871 |
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