agentization
The process of making something an agent (in any sense).
Noun
- The process of making something an agent (in any sense).
- 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...
- there is significant support for the ‘agentization’ of the Northern Ireland prison service along English lines. - 1995, Lesley Noaks, Michael Levi, Mike Maguire, Contemporary Issues in Criminology:
- 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...
Origin
From agent + -ization.