Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun topicalization

1 sense of topicalization

Sense 1
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")
       => emphasis -- (special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.)