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CTRD: A Chinese Theme-Rheme Discourse Dataset

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021
Discourse topic structure is the key to the cohesion of the discourse and reflects the essence of the text. Current Chinese discourse corpus are constructed mainly based on rhetoric and semantic relations, which ignore the functional information in discourse.
Biao Fu, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi
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Rheme and reason: Why is English always the Theme rather than the Rheme in our acronyms?

open access: yesEnglish Today, 2011
The position of ‘E’, for English, has always been at the forefront of all the acronyms of language learning and descriptions of world trends in English language teaching and acquisition, EFL, ESL, ELT, ESP, EIL, ELF, or second only to ‘T’ for teaching, TEFL and TESOL.
Alan James Runcieman
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Theme, Rheme, and Word Order

open access: yesHistoriographia Linguistica, 1978
SummaryHenri Weil’s thesis, published in Paris during the first half of the 19th century, is the first cogent theory of word order in European linguistics. Weil’s work is the first to argue that discourse structure has an effect on the internal structure of the sentence.
Christian Adjémian
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On Rheme and Kontrast

1998
Enric Vallduví, Maria Vilkuna
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