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1. (2) foreground [noun]-- (the part of a scene that is near the viewer) 1. foreground, [verb] highlight, spotlight, play up -- (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"; "highlight the passage so that you can find it again when you open the book")

 

 

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Taking a vantage point or perspective that focuses on certain elements or figures in a scene rather than others. Taking a vantage point places certain elements in the scene in the "foreground" and others in the "background."

Disciplinary Definitions:

“A scene can generally ve viewed from different vantage points [perspectives].  A particular choice of vantage point imposes on the scene an alignment into foreground and background, where the foreground is an area of indeterminate size extending from the portion of the scene most nearly adjacent to the vantage point.  A participant in the foreground is typically more prominent and easily perceived than in the background, simply because of the greater promixity to the viewer.”  Langacker, Foundations of Cognitive Grammar , 124-125

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