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名詞

agentization (uncountable)

1. The process of making something an agent (in any sense).
   • 1981, Norbert Hornstein, David Lightfoot, Explanation in Linguistics: the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition‎:

     I conclude that the new se-impersonal construction can have no connection with a process of Agentization, even if the agent phrase is thought of as deleted. Since it also has no connection with a process of Object Fronting […]

   • 1995, Lesley Noaks, Michael Levi, Mike Maguire, Contemporary Issues in Criminology‎:

     there is significant support for the ‘agentization’ of the Northern Ireland prison service along English lines.

   • 2008, Penny Duquenoy, Carlisle George, Kai Kimppa, Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Medical Informatics‎:

     While anthropomorphism by its definition is about giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects and forces, agentization is about imposing human-like activity on non-human objects. In future studies, agentization also contains a notion of independence and existing independently of the human. Agentization, like anthropomorphism, is something we use and encounter on a daily basis. Probably every one of us remembers more than one situation in which we wonder what our computer does all by itself. In those infuriating moments, it almost feels like “it” (the computer) has a will of its own.

   • 2009, Robert E. Innis, Susanne Langer in Focus: the Symbolic Mind)‎:

     The ontological nature of the word, I would add, is illustrated not just in “primitive religions” but also in the agentization, if not personification, of the Word in Judaism and Christianity

参考

• agencification
• agentification