dialecticalizations

Noun

dialecticalization (countable and uncountable, plural dialecticalizations)

1. The process of (a language) separating into dialects.
   • Caxton noted: "And that comyn englysshe that is spoken in one shire varyeth from a nother."^([sic])¹⁹ But political, social, and technical forces can arrest dialecticalization and impose a standard speech, as tends to occur in large states.1969, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston University Papers on Africa, volume 3, page 43
2. The introduction of a dialectic (exchange of arguments or contradiction of ideas) to explore an idea or topic.
   • Croce also opposed Hegel’s methodical dialecticalization of distinct aspects of reality, individual facts and empirical concepts,¹⁹⁰ not because of the quaint biases it revealed but because Croce was not a universalist like Hegel, only a partial universalist, lacking also the macro-microcosmos...1958, Calvin Seerveld, Benedetto Croce's Earlier Aesthetic Theories and Literary Criticism: A Critical Philosophical Look at the Development During His Rationalistic Years, →ISBN, page 91
3. (Marxism) The initiation of dialectic (conflict), especially class conflict.
   • One masterly way to avoid that danger is by a cultural revolution, that dialecticalization which has yesterday, today or tomorrow and which avoids becoming static because it is an ongoing effort for change.1973, Harriet Burns Sherwin, Paulo Freire: His Philosophy and Pedagogy and Its Implication for American Education, The University of California, Berkeley, page 224