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The language of insults: A look at Theme, Rheme and negative inferences

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2022
This paper examines the thematic structure of a corpus of insults using the inference-boundary model of Theme and Rheme. It focuses on the concept of negative inference—which must be generated for an insult to be successfully delivered—and shows how it ...
Leong Alvin Ping
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On the Concept of Emphatic Rheme [PDF]

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2005
Distinction is an efficient syntactic device which helps highlight the rhematic part of an utterance in a most expressive way separating it from the core of the sentence and presenting it either fully or partially.
Yelena Mkhitarian
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The Recategorization of the Rheme and the Structure of the Oral Paragraph in French and in Finnish [PDF]

Discours, 2010
At first sight, the intonation systems of French and Finnish – which are typologically distant languages – seem completely different. This paper aims, however, at showing that the discourse-structuring role of the utterance-final pitch rises in ...
Mari Lehtinen
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Theme-rheme in the Japanese complex sentence

Linguistics, 1995
Un locuteur anglais qui produit une phrase complexe dispose d'au moins trois moyens differents pour faire de la proposition subordonnee le rheme de l'enonce: = deplacer l'intonation rhematique vers la SUB (It is to forget, that I drink), = deplacer l'intonation principale vers une position marquee dans une subordonnee placee avant la principale (To ...
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Process as Rheme Proper in Lithuanian and English Sentences

Kalbotyra, 2003
The article presents an analysis of Lithuanian and English sentences perspectived towards a process. The communicative function of the process depends on whether the sentence is contextualized or not: the communicative structure of context-independent ...
Eglė Petronienė
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Informational Organization of the Sentence in Romanian [PDF]

Philologia, 2022
The article contains a description of the informational structure of the sentence in its capacity as a layer of meaning constituted as an effect of its contextual updating.
Ion BĂRBUȚĂ
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Thematic and Rhematic Progression in Scientific Writing: A Pilot Study

Journal of Language and Literature, 2022
The Hallidayan Theme-Rheme framework is commonly used to account for the message structure of language. Much has been done to investigate the message structure of different text types using the Hallidayan framework and Daneš’s notion of thematic ...
Alvin Ping Leong
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PROBLEMS ON SFG THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN ESL ACADEMIC WRITING

Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017
The objective of this research is to identify the problems on the thematic progression in fifth semester students’ academic writing. It examines the problems caused by the misuse of theme and rheme in the thematic progression of their writing.
Heri Kuswoyo, Susardi Susardi
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Lexical means of Theme and Rheme definition in Ukrainian and English

Записки з романо-германської філології, 2015
Lexical means of Theme and Rheme definition in Ukrainian and English are analyzed in the article. Among them are: negative pronouns, negative particles, special questions, parenthetic and modal words, approximators.
Е. В. Стрига
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Object Determinants with Qualitative and Characterizing Meaning in the Aspect of the Utterance Meaning Segmentation of the Prosaic Speech

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2019
The article reveals therole of adverbial determinants with a qualitativelycharacterizing meaning in the actual (semantic) articulation of the statement.
Irina A. Zubkova
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