topicalize

English

Alternative forms

• topicalise

Etymology

From topical +‎ -ize.

Verb

topicalize (third-person singular simple present topicalizes, present participle topicalizing, simple past and past participle topicalized)

1. (grammar) To place the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
2. (sociology) To treat (a subject) as a topic.
   • 2013, Teun A. van Dijk, News Analysis, page 203:

     […] during the whole media debate the alternative point of view and the perspective and rights of the minority groups themselves were hardly, if at all, topicalized.

Derived terms

• topicalizer