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Foregrounding

Foregrounding is a concept in literary studies that concerns making a linguistic utterance (word, clause, phrase, phoneme, etc.) stand out from the surrounding linguistic context, from given literary traditions, or from more urban knowledge. It is "the 'throwing into relief' of the linguistic sign against the background of the norms of ordinary…

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Evidence Supporting Foregrounding Theory

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Foregrounding

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Edges25
Triples51
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
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related to Evidence Supporting Foregrounding Theory · 24
Foregrounding → Another, Bortolussi, Dixon, Emma Zunz, For, Hakemulder, Harash, However, In, Jorge Luis Borges, Koopman, Kuijpers, Kuiken, Leung, Miall, Results, Sentences, Some, The, These
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Foregrounding → And, Art, British, Czech, Defamiliarization, English, Especially, Geoffrey Leech, Iskusstvo, It, Jan Mukařovský, Paul Garvin, Prague, Roger Fowler, Russian Formalists, Soon, Technique, The, The Prague Structuralists, These
see also · 2
Foregrounding → DefamiliarizationGlossary, Effects
is a · 1
Foregrounding → concept in literary studies that concerns making a linguistic utterance

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