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What is a defamiliarization?

What is a defamiliarization? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of defamiliarisation
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His study examines the teaching of Biblical Hebrew in Chinese through the lens of language defamiliarization.
The book's primary occasion is a trip to China, where the speaker's defamiliarization prompts introspection.
He defined defamiliarization as a poetic approach to presenting the habitual as though it were being encountered for the first time.
I spent most of my time living in the city where life is framed by this continual process of familiarization and defamiliarization.
Nothing provides this kind of defamiliarization quite like how the arts re-perform the Biblical stories.
When the couple finally find themselves alone at a formal restaurant for the first time in years, they experience a giddy sense of defamiliarization.

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