topicalization

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noun

(linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence;
placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English
- 'Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and 'Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization
• Derivationally related forms:
topicalize
• Topics:
linguistics
• Hypernyms:
emphasis