Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Topicalization has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
(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"
The placing of the topic of a sentence at the beginning.