WordNet: topicalization

(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"

• domain: topic linguistics

• hypernym emphasis

topicalization

• (englanti) topicalize (derivationally related)
• (suomi) painotus (synonyymi)