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Definition of Subtext
1. Noun. The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subtext
1. written or printed matter under a more general text [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtext
Literary usage of Subtext
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Architect and the Scaffold: Evolution and Education in South Africa by W. James, Lynne Wilson (2002)
"The basic en „ structure of this subtext is oppositional or exclusivist. ...
What is required is the transcription of the either/or | subtext into an ..."
2. Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia by Fu-chen Lo, Yue-man Yeung (1996)
"This is, we would argue, a central but necessarily hidden subtext. It is a subtext
the Singapore government must support, yet not dare articulate. ..."
3. Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie STore And Beat Back The Chains by Andrew Laties (2005)
"As a key additional subtext—perhaps unintended by auteur Ephron—consider Virginia
... As it stands, thanks to Nora Ephron's clever delivery of sexy subtext, ..."
4. Season of Hope: Economic Reform Under Mandela And Mbeki by Alan Hirsch (2005)
"... Cronin struck out at the underlying assumptions he saw reflected in Growth,
for All. He focused more on the subtext than the details. ..."
5. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"Uncertainty about what comes next is the subtext of nearly every public pronouncement
by the new leaders of Eastern Europe, including Mikhail Gorbachev. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"614; Meridian v. Western out vested the title of the streets in Union Tel.
Co., 72 Miss. 910, citing the city, such streets cannot be subtext; Canton v. ..."
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