thematicize

English

Alternative forms

• thematize, thematise
• thematicise

Etymology

From thematic +‎ -ize.

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

     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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. (linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel.
   • 1993, Ádám Makkai, Ecolinguistics: towards a new paradigm for the science of language?, →ISBN:

     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.

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

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

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

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

   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.