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is pronounced with stress on the second syllable, and means 'a critical essay or analysis'. Fowler (1926) said of the noun that 'there is some hope of it dying out', and offered the alternatives review, criticism, and notice. Nonetheless, critique remains in use, albeit in contexts that justify Fowler's implied accusation of pretentiousness:

This melange of stroboscopic graphics, jingles and one-liner critiques—Art Line, 1989.

Drawing on earlier feminist critiques of male-centred approaches to research, key themes are succinctly raised about the selection of sexist and elitist research topics, biased research that uses male-only respondents, exploitative relationships between researcher and researched, claims to false objectivity, and generalising about findings that relate only to men as applicable to humankind—Times Higher Education Supplement, 2007.

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noun

Evaluative and critical discourse: criticism, notice, review. See opinion, words.

critique, a considered assessment of a literary work, usually in the form of an essay or review. Also, in philosophy, politics, and the social sciences, a systematic inquiry into the nature of some principle, idea, institution, or ideology, usually devoted to revealing its limits or self‐contradictions.

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Not a methodology or body of theory as such but more an attitude which focuses on the social construction of knowledge and is thus very relevant to a self-reflective discipline such as archaeology. At its simplest, critique refers to the questioning element of liberal and academic debate focusing on the open criticism of the opinions and work of others. Critique is also a powerful tradition within western philosophy that focuses on the rational reconstruction of the conditions which make language, cognition, and action possible. As such, critique aims to subject everything to scrutiny, attempting to unveil and debunk while reflecting on the constraints to which people succumb in the process of constructing knowledge.

In sport sociology, a perspective that attempts to problematize the everyday and familiar aspects of sport by questioning how practices in sport are constructed, why they have been constructed in certain ways, and who or what categories of individuals benefit from the way sport is constructed. A critique usually involves an analysis relating individual events to wider social, political, and economic contexts.

IN BRIEF: A writing that gives a careful judgment of a book, play or film.

After you have read the book, write a critique about it to either encourage or discourage others from reading it.

Tutor's tip: The "critic" (someone who evaluates creative works) wrote up his "critique" (a criticism of a creative work) of the new play.

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• Judgments and Critiques - critique: critical evaluation; usu. written; review

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kritik, kritisk afhandling
v. tr. - behandle kritisk

Nederlands (Dutch)
kritiek, recensie, bekritiseren, recenseren

Français (French)
n. - critique
v. tr. - (US) critiquer (analyse)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kritik
v. - Kritik üben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κριτική (ανάλυση), τέχνη της κριτικής

Italiano (Italian)
critica

Português (Portuguese)
n. - crítica (f)

Русский (Russian)
критика

Español (Spanish)
n. - crítica, evaluación
v. tr. - criticar, evaluar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kritisk avhandling

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
批评, 评论, 批评法, 给...写评论

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 批評, 評論, 批評法
v. tr. - 給...寫評論, 評論

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 평론, 비평법
v. tr. - 비평하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 批評, 評論
v. - 批評する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بحث نقدي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מאמר-ביקורת, ניתוח ביקורתי‬
v. tr. - ‮דן באופן ביקורתי‬

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