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Topics are the old information (information already known by the speaker and listener) in a sentence.

==See Also==
*[[Information Structure (definition)]]
*[[Focus (definition)]]
*[[Pragmatics (definition)]]

==External Links==
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(linguistics)
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_structure

==References==
*Crystal, D. (2008) ''Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
*Matthews, P. H. (1997) ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
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