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marcación

English translation: marking

12:38 Jul 5, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / sociology/anthropology
Spanish term or phrase: marcación
I am translating a text by an anthropologist that includes this term. Here are some examples of how it is used in the social sciences:

La distinción entre riesgo y peligro hace posible una marcación a ambos lados, pero no a los dos a la vez.

Procesos de marcación social desde una antropología de la memoria: la escritura del pasado según las asociaciones étnicas lituanas en Argentina.

Llama la atención en su contratapa el modo en que se presenta al autor, una primera "operación de marcación" que, como recuerda Bourdieu,1 orienta la recepción y la lectura: "uno de los mayores filósofos del siglo XX".

“(…) emergen en el juego de modalidades específicas de poder y, por ello, son más un producto de la marcación de la diferencia y la exclusión que signo de una unidad idéntica y naturalmente constituida: una «identidad» en su significado tradicional (es decir, una mismidad omniabarcativa, inconsútil y sin diferenciación interna)”
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 01:53
English translation:marking
Explanation:
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-06326-004
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Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 00:53
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4marking
Francois Boye
4differentiation
Elisa Lopez Schiaffino
3markedness
liz askew
3demarcation
JohnMcDove
3designation/classification
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón


Discussion entries: 3





  

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differentiation


Explanation:
Differentiation is the term used in social sciences.


    Reference: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29487/1/Differentiation%20%28LSERO%...
    Reference: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/social-differentiation
Elisa Lopez Schiaffino
Local time: 23:53
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Charles Davis: It is indeed used, but you haven't shown that marcación has this meaning.
39 mins
  -> You are right. Here it is: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diferenciación_(sociología)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
markedness


Explanation:
Markedness - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness
In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form.
‎Background in the Prague ... · ‎Cultural markedness and ... · ‎Local markedness and ...
A Sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus - Jstor
https://www.jstor.org/stable/202213
by W Brekhus - ‎1998 - ‎Cited by 331 - ‎Related articles
within the general culture, social scientists contribute to re-marking and the ... markedness" to refer to the ways social actors actively perceive one side of a ...


The Markedness Model - Jstor
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43103213
by KH ROBERT - ‎1998 - ‎Cited by 1 - ‎Related articles
The Markedness Model (MM) of language choice, developed and pro- moted by Carol Myers-Scotton over the past two decades, has become one of the dominant models used ... 252 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. A detailed exposition of ...

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modelo de la marcación - Markedness model - qwerty.wiki
https://es.qwerty.wiki/wiki/Markedness_model
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El modelo de la marcación (teoría sociolingüística) propuesto por Carol Myers-Scotton es una cuenta de la motivación indicial social para el cambio de código .

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: Not the same thing. (My doctoral thesis was on markedness.)
5 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
marking


Explanation:
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-06326-004

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 00:53
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 24
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: This fits all of Wendy's examples.
17 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Andrea Sacchi
2 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
4 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  neilmac
17 hrs
  -> Thanks!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
demarcation


Explanation:
How about "demarcation"?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demarcation

: a marked or perceived distinction between one area, category, etc., and another
The ability to test a theory against physical evidence … has provided a useful demarcation between science and pseudoscience.
— Norriss S. Hetherington
[...]
There has been much chatter in recent seasons about the great gender crossover, that deliberate erosion on the runways of a once-rigid demarcation between conventionally feminine and masculine clothes.
— Elizabeth Paton
… the continued presence in the modern imagination of a sharp demarcation between public and private space.
— AAG Abstracts

Saludos cordiales.

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https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20...

https://ludwig.guru/s/social demarcation

"Even though we use the term 'social dialect' or 'sociolect' as a label for the alignment of a set of language structures with the social position of a group in a status hierarchy, the social demarcation of language does not exist in a vacuum. Speakers are simultaneously affiliated with a number of different groups that include region, age, gender, and ethnicity, and some of these other factors may weigh heavily in the determination of the social stratification of language variation.

https://www.thoughtco.com/social-dialect-sociolect-1692109


JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 21:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 day 15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
designation/classification


Explanation:
My opinion.

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 23:53
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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