supertopic
A topic that encompasses several other topics.
Noun
- A topic that encompasses several other topics.
- On the other hand, shifts in contextual constraints are even greater at first-level boundaries, at the beginning of a story (in narration) or a supertopic (in elicitation). - 1998, Andreas H. Jucker, Yael Ziv, Discourse...
- That choice would leave the supertopic Classroom Experiences open, a situation that can be represented with an open parenthesis. - 2008, Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton, The Handbook of Discourse...
- There is an overarching topic, sometimes called a supertopic, and the interlocutors move through a series of subtopics related to the supertopic, slipping easily from one subtopic to the next. - 2013, Jan McAllister,...
Origin
From super- + topic.