Emphasis Explained

Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:

Communication

• Emphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal meant to reduce adverse effects of noise
• Cultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' culture

Writing

• Emphasis (typography), visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
• Emphasis point, a typographic marking used in some east Asian languages to indicate emphasis

Linguistics

• Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages
• Prosodic stress, speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands out
• Do-support, a way to using additional words to call attention to important words
• Intensifier, a way to using additional words to call attention to important words

Music

• Emphasis! (On Parenthesis), 2008 album by the Stanton Moore Trio
• "Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever", 2002 single by After Forever
• Emphatic (band), American rock band

Other uses

• Emphatic Diaglott, 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson
• ST Emphatic

See also

• Prominence (disambiguation)
• Stress (disambiguation)
• Markedness, quality of a non-basic or less natural linguistic form