Topic Definition–noun | 1. | a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion. |
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| the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts. |
| 3. | Rhetoric, Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn. |
| 4. | Also called theme. Linguistics. the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker. Compare comment (def. 6). |
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Related topics from BritannicaHungary
Special topics are considered in Lorant Czigany, The Oxford History of Hungarian Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present (1984); Albert Tezla, Hungarian Authors: A Bibliographical Handbook ...
Edinburgh
Special topics related to Edinburgh are covered in Trevor Royle, Precipitous City: The Story of Literary Edinburgh (1980), a history of the city's five centuries as a literary centre; John Gifford, ...
Plato
Plato's ethics is considered in John Gould, The Development of Plato's Ethics (1955, reprinted 1972); Pamela Huby, Plato and Modern Morality (1972); Terence Irwin, Plato's Moral Theory: The Early and ...
Hitler, Adolf
Other topics are dealt with in Harold J. Gordon, Jr., Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch (1972); Ernst Hanfstaengl, Unheard Witness (1957; also published as Hitler: The Missing Years, 1957, reissued, ...
Crusades
Military histories of the Latin East are available in R.C. Smail, Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193, 2nd ed. (1995); and Christopher Marshall, Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291 (1992). Art and ...
Portugal
More-specialized studies include A.H. de Oliveira Marques, Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages (1971); and Carl Hanson, Atlantic Emporium: Portugal and the Wider World, 1147-1497 (2001). ...
Charlemagne
Basic to any serious study of Charlemagne is Wolfgang Braunfels (ed.), Karl der Grosse: Lebenswerk und Nachleben, 3rd ed., 5 vol. (1967-68), a massive collection of essays treating various aspects of ...
taxation
Texts on the taxation of income from capital include Jane G. Gravelle, The Economic Effects of Taxing Capital Income (1994); and Martin Feldstein, James R. Hines, Jr., and R. Glenn Hubbard (eds.), ...
organizational analysis
Contingency theory, an approach that grew out of the Carnegie tradition, gained in popularity during the 1960s and '70s. Contingency theorists disputed the assumption that a single form of ...
comic strip
Among the volumes treating women in comics are Maurice Horn, Women in the Comics, rev. and updated, 3 vol. (2001); and Trina Robbins, From Girls to Grrrlz (1999), and The Great Women Cartoonists ...
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