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n. The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
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Subtext or undertone is any content of a creative work which is not announced explicitly by the characters or author, but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work as the production unfolds. Subtext can also refer to the thoughts and motives of the characters which are only covered in an aside. Subtext can also be used to imply controversial subjects without specifically alienating people from the fiction, often through use of metaphor. Especially in light of their inherently ambiguous and self-referential character, many authors have explicitly used subtexts (or subtexts about subtexts) in humor.
Subtext is content underneath the dialogue. Under dialogue, there can be conflict, anger, competition, pride, showing off, or other implicit ideas and emotions. Subtext is the unspoken thoughts and motives of characters—what they really think and believe.
Subtext is also a frequently used method of subtly inserting social or political commentary into fiction. Subtext is often also inserted in narratives where explicit themes are unable to be shown or expressed due to censorship or simply interest in appealing to a general audience. Frequently, these subtexts may include a sexual nature or possible references to sexual orientation. Their inclusion is such so that they are easily overlooked by younger viewers but may be caught by more mature viewers. Subtext also serves to add complexity to a premise that may superficially appeal to younger viewers but may also attract older fans, as is often the case with cartoons, science fiction and fantasy. It also may serve to aid in suspension of disbelief.
Subtext includes information about the period and culture in which the author of a book is writing that may not be deliberately articulated but is conveyed through the text in speech, social customs or historical details.
A more recently coined term, metamessage (also spelled as meta-message and meta message) is considered by some authors to be synonymous with subtext. Metamessage is a term more commonly used in the analysis of business communication rather than of literary works.
Subtext is a moderately visual programming language and environment, for writing application software. It is an experimental, research attempt to develop a new programming model, called Example Centric Programming, by treating copied blocks as first class prototypes, for program structure. It uses live text, similar to what occurs in spreadsheets as users update cells, for frequent feedback. It is intended to eventually be developed enough to become a practical language for daily use. It is planned to be open software; the license is not yet determined.
Subtext was created by Jonathan Edwards who submitted a paper on the language to OOPSLA. It was accepted as part of the 2005 conference.
Subtext is a blog publishing system written in C# on ASP.NET. All data is stored in a Microsoft SQL Server database.
The latest release of Subtext is 2.5, released on June 6, 2010. It is distributed under the BSD License.
Subtext is that content of a text or performance which is not announced explicitly but is implicit.
Subtext may also refer to:
- Subtext (programming language), a moderately visual programming language and environment, for writing application software
- Subtext Weblog Software, blog-publishing software
Usage examples of "subtext".
They talked about preconscious flow and cultural memes and the ambient psychosexual subtext.
Racial hostility is a frequent subtext of commercials for beer, soft drinks and running shoes.
My discourse on the sadomasochistic subtext of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas has been called a minor masterpiece.
It was all part of the message she was cumulating for them, in word, gesture, and subtext.
And there was an unspoken subtext in each speech that never ceased to trouble him: the patronizing implication that he had done wonderful things for a robot, that it was close to miraculous that a mere mechanical construction like himself should have been able to think so creatively and to transmute his thoughts into such extraordinary accomplishments.
If it hadn't been for those damn' meddlesome posthumanists –" Her wrinkled, unnaturally aged face scowls at him furiously from underneath hair that has faded to the color of rotten straw, but he senses a subtext of self-deprecating irony that he doesn't understand.
There are lots of subtexts loose in this room, broken narratives from stories of misguided affections.
An inordinate percentage incorporated images or subtexts of space, or of floating, or of flying.
As she had guessed, a program of old and new songs with racial themes or subtexts was being broadcast on all frequencies, burning everything else off the air just like the night before.
There was no evidence that the Cora were aware of the inflectional subtexts of spoken wordsbut RyRelee did not dare chance accusing his masters of either ruthlessness or stupidity.
You can read subtexts even in a traffic sign that says 'No littering.
Similarly, our spoken language includes a range of vocalizations, imperceptible to most other species, that may contain many layers of subtext.