FOREGROUNDING

Foregrounding is defined as an effect, it’s occur normally, Foregrounding means “to bring it front”. Foregrounding concept was initially started in literature and then adapted in films. Foregrounding is an expression to make people familiarize about the subject. The basic idea in foregrounding is that the clauses which make up a text can be divided into two classes. There are clauses which convey the most central or important ideas in text, those propositions which should be remembered. And there are clauses which, in one way or another, elaborate on the important ideas, adding specificity or contextual information to help in the interpretation of the central ideas. The clauses which convey the most central or important information are called foregrounded clauses, and their propositional content is foreground information. The clauses which elaborate the central propositions are called back grounded clauses, and their propositional content is background information.

The concept of foregrounding has been made use of most in textual analysis. It is a useful tool to describe particular characteristics of the text, or to explain its specific poetic effects on the reader. And it may fruitfully be employed to establish a link between purely linguistic description and the functioning literary texts in a culture at large.
Foregrounding has also been a useful concept in the study of visual arts and spectators' responses. In general the term is refers to drawing spectators' attention to some element in the film by means of unusual filmic devices. Examples would be fixed positioning of the camera, and the deformation of familiar objects through filters, mirrors, and extreme close-ups.
It will be apprehended that foregrounding devices may - because of their very use - lose their defamiliarizing potential, and thus stand in need of constant replacement. In this way history can be viewed as a continuous wavelike replacement and renewal of the devices and processes by which foregrounding operates.

Foregrounding theory was developed to understand responses to both literature and film, experimental research concentrated only on reader response, till now.