topicalization
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Noun
(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"