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What is "subject matter"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subject matter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Griggs became famous for the controversial subject matter of his art.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few years later, Mr Matthiesen saw a picture of the same subject matter when previewing forthcoming sale material at Sotheby's.
▪ Although each chapter discusses many applications, the editors carefully cross reference subject matter within the diverse chapters to reduce redundancy.
▪ First, such programming draws huge audiences, which suggests that people are interested in both the subject matter and the subjects.
▪ Schooling is about more than just subject matter.
▪ The subject matter was much too technical for her, many of the words almost incomprehensible.
▪ The child-use section contains instructional materials in a wide variety of format and subject matter for the children themselves.
Wiktionary
subject matter

alt. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. n. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.

WordNet
subject matter

n. what a communication that is about something is about [syn: message, content, substance]

Wikipedia
Subject matter

Subject matter, in general, is anything which can be content for some theory.

Subject matter may refer to:

  • Patentable subject matter (or statutory subject matter), defining whether patent protection is available
  • Subject-matter jurisdiction, determining the kinds of claims or disputes over which a court has jurisdiction
  • Subject-matter expert, an expert in a particular area
  • Subject matter expert Turing test, a variation of the Turing test where a computer system attempts to replicate an expert in a given field

Usage examples of "subject matter".

But over the course of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, as more writers came into the field from the social sciences and humanities rather than the hard sciences, both styles and subject matter began to change.

But the real subject matter of this Cosmology were ideas which had become very abstract, which had by tradition subsisted from old forms of Cosmology.

Told from four different points of view, this story of a doomed family was the first novel in which Faulkner combined his Mississippi subject matter with experimental literary techniques that had been influenced by modern authors such as T.

It is filled with latent urges and desires that comport illy with the serious subject matter of my mind.

PLAYBOY: In a review of your work in The New Republic, novelist Michele Slung suggested that the grisly nature of your subject matter may lead some critics to underestimate your literary talents.

These writers did not invent their subject matter as I did, because they did not need to.

Finding subject matter in winter was a greater problem than in summer, and this year he had encountered a few dead ends.

It appeared she had found a kindred spirit who shared her convictions about the authenticity of the subject matter upon which Lovecraft based his stories.

I was trying to decide whether I should sort them by country of origin or subject matter when the message arrived.