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Interpellated vs Interpellate - What's the difference?

interpellated | interpellate |

As verbs the difference between interpellated and interpellate

is that interpellated is past tense of interpellate while interpellate is to interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).

interpellated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (interpellate)

    • interpellate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
  • (philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).
  • * 1996 , The Cambridge History of American Literature'', volume 8, ''Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995 (edited by Sacvan Bercovitch), page 408:
    • interpellates those being addressed as an audience, and one that is differentiated by gender.
  • * 2002 , Marianne Jørgensen, Louise J. Phillips, Discourse Analysis As Theory and Method , page 41:
  • * 2009 , Samia Bazzi, Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study :
    • whereas the Palestinian subjects are interpellated as: the martyr... a young Palestinian... a Palestinian teenager.
  • (transitive, chiefly, politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.

    • Derived terms

    * interpellator * interpellation

    See also

    * interpolate * interpel ----

    interpellate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
  • (philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).
  • * 1996 , The Cambridge History of American Literature'', volume 8, ''Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995 (edited by Sacvan Bercovitch), page 408:
    • interpellates those being addressed as an audience, and one that is differentiated by gender.
  • * 2002 , Marianne Jørgensen, Louise J. Phillips, Discourse Analysis As Theory and Method , page 41:
  • * 2009 , Samia Bazzi, Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study :
    • whereas the Palestinian subjects are interpellated as: the martyr... a young Palestinian... a Palestinian teenager.
  • (transitive, chiefly, politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.

    • Derived terms

    * interpellator * interpellation

    See also

    * interpolate * interpel ----