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Convention vs Antitextual - What's the difference?

convention | antitextual |

As a noun convention

is a meeting or gathering.

As an adjective antitextual is

opposing a text or textual conventions.

convention

English

(wikipedia convention)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A meeting or gathering.
    • The convention was held in Geneva.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 30 , author=Katherine Stewart , title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.}}
  • A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
    • ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
  • The convening of a formal meeting
  • A formal agreement, contract or pact
  • (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
    • ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
  • A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
  • *
    • In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
    placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
    (40)      VP → V AP (PP)
    (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
    optional.)
    ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
    The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

    Derived terms

    * by convention * coding conventions * conventional, conventionally * conventionalize * conventioneer * convention centre, convention center * naming convention * pictorial convention * trade convention

    Related terms

    * convener * convent * convenient * conventicle

    antitextual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing a text or textual conventions.
  • * 1988 , Shari Benstock, The private self (page 140)
    • Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual . Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes
  • * 1994 , Steven Heine, D?gen and the K?an tradition (page 177)
    • The advent of Zen to a large extent functions as an antistructural, antitextual movement