Dictionary

misjuncture en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + juncture.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A poorly articulated connection; a joining of things that functions poorly.
   • This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing. 2012, Ranjan Ghosh, “Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally”, in Comparative Drama, 46(3): 259-281:
   • The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole 2015, Anna Kornbluh, “The Realist Blueprint”, in The Henry James Review, 36(3): 199-211:
   • Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by "a structure of misjuncture" (1991:285) as opposed to a "structure of conjuncture," inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290). 2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge:
   • Near-synonym: misunion
   • The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70). 2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80:

Forms

Coordinates

disjuncture · disjunction · disjunct

Relateds

misjoinder · dysfunction · malfunction

Synonyms

misjoin · misjoining · misunion