Definition of "thematicize"

thematicize

verb
third-person singular simple present thematicizes, present participle thematicizing, simple past and past participle thematicized
1. To make into or explore as a theme.
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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
  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, page ix
  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, page 983
2. (linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel.
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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?
  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, page 124
  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
  1. (Indo-European linguistics, usually passive voice or intransitive) To change from an athematic type into a thematic one

Definition of "thematicize"

thematicize

verb

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