thematicize

Verb

thematicize (third-person singular simple present thematicizes, present participle thematicizing, simple past and past participle thematicized)

1. To make into or explore as a theme.
   • 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...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
2. To insert a thematic vowel.
   • 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...1993, Ádám Makkai, Ecolinguistics: towards a new paradigm for the science of language?, →ISBN
   • 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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   thematise

   1. (Indo-European-studies, usually passive voice or intransitive) To 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.