thematicize

present singular third person thematicizes · participle present thematicizing · participle past thematicized · past thematicized · alternative thematicise

1. To make into or explore as a theme.

   The project behind this conceptualization is to thematicize the spatial component of all phenomena.

   2005, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces, →ISBN, page ix

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   As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence.

   1979, Jovan Đorđević, Political Science in Yugoslavia: Selected Works, page 64

   In this way these autobiographies thematicize an important given within existentialism, namely the tension between the enforced identity of the other (in this case: the parents and educators) and the need the authentic individual feels to discover his essence by himself.

   2005, Hans van Stralen, Choices and Conflict: Essays on Literature and Existentialism, →ISBN

   That Beethoven would make the idea of an arpeggio into a motif is characteristic of his drive to thematicize every element of music.

   2014, Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph : a Biography, →ISBN, page 983

2. human sciencesTo insert a thematic vowel.

   However, there is a normal unmarked order, and other word orders thematicize or topicalize.

   2001, Jane Garry, Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Facts about the World's Languages, →ISBN, page 124

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   If, on the other hand, /T/ stands under the N or NP marked as GOAL/TARGET/VICTIM, the transduction protocol will thematicize the DO noun, in our case Caesar, and the rest of the lexo-tactics, independently learned and remembered by the speakers, will adjust the verb as Aux + Tense + V + Past Participle and the original Agent/Subject of the race will show up as by + N in sentence final position.

   1993, Ádám Makkai, Ecolinguistics: towards a new paradigm for the science of language?, →ISBN

   Celtic tended to thematicize athematic verbs and to generalize a single grade of ablaut, usually the zero grade of the plural:...

   2017 -, Mate Kapović, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat, The Indo-European Languages, →ISBN

   Synonyms: thematise

   1. Indo European studiesusually passive voice or intransitivehuman sciencesTo change from an athematic type into a thematic one

      As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized.

      Synonyms: thematise