topicalization
Noun
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(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 (synset 106495968)"`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization"referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of languageis a type of: emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
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