topicalize
verbEtymology From topical + -ize.
1
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To place the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
2
Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology To treat (a subject) as a topic.
- […] 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.2013, Teun A. van Dijk, News Analysis, page 203:
- Derived terms
- retopicalize, topicalizer