topicalization

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
topicalization
    n 1: (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"
    

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