topicalize

topicalize

English

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Etymology

Etymology tree
English topic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English topical
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English topicalize

    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.

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