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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 Englishplay

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)

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