foregrounding

IPA: fˈɔrgraʊndɪŋ

a concept in literary studies concerning making a linguistic utterance (word, clause, phrase, phoneme, etc.) stand out from the surrounding linguistic context, from given literary traditions or from more general world knowledge.

Examples of "foregrounding" in Sentences

It is you who are "foregrounding" race and religion.
I feel sad that these divides exist, but I want to continue foregrounding them and discussing them.
Despite these follies, the kind of foregrounding that he has attempted in course of the present series of essays is immensely praiseworthy.
The major achievements of O'Quinn's essay lie in foregrounding abolition and the slave trade as critical sites for the deployment of sexuality during the
It is the sort of thing most readily identified as a "novel of ideas," although this novel may be the most insistent on foregrounding the "ideas" themselves as its central interest.
I think you deserve a bit of congratulations for "foregrounding" the "person who can't go to gig sells his ticket at cost price to best mate" angle ... you may well have saved us all well some of us anyway, at least those with slightly flawed babysitting arrangements quite a lot of court fees, fines etc.
Although Virginia Woolf's version of "psychological realism" needs to be taken as a special case -- it's so pure an attempt to stay within the flow of her character's stream of thought -- I would argue that most expository passages in modern fiction do in fact take place as part of the "foregrounding of psychology."