topicalize

A verb used in linguistics to indicate the act of making a particular element the topic or focus of a sentence or discourse.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé en linguistique pour désigner l'action de faire d'un élément donné le thème ou le focus d'une phrase ou d'un discours.

1. Emphasize in a sentence C2 formal

   To place a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence or give it heavy stress to highlight its importance.

   • In English, you can topicalize an object by moving it to the front, as in 'That book, I have read.'
   • The speaker topicalized the key point by saying 'This issue, we must address immediately.'
   • Linguists study how different languages topicalize elements for emphasis.

   🇫🇷mettre en avant dans une phrase

   Synonymes: emphasizeforegroundfronthighlightstress

   Antonymes: background

• topicalized past participle
• topicalized past simple
• topicalizing present participle
• topicalizes third person singular