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TOPICALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Example:
'Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and 'Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("topicalization" is a kind of...):
emphasis (special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Derivation:
topicalize (emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence)
