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ANALYSIS OF THEME AND RHEME ON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ WRITING
National Conference on Language, Education, and Technology Proceeding, 2023The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of themes and describe the most dominant themes used in students' writing. The data used were from 5 students who wrote on the subject of writing introductory paragraphs and the data were analyzed based on Halliday & Matthiessen's MA K Theory (2014).
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International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design
Recently, Large Language Model (LLM) based Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has drawn more attention while undervaluing linguistic knowledge. This paper investigates whether LLM-based AES systems can be improved by introducing explicit Theme–Rheme cues from
Xi Kang, Fang Kong, Zheng-Xian Gong
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Recently, Large Language Model (LLM) based Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has drawn more attention while undervaluing linguistic knowledge. This paper investigates whether LLM-based AES systems can be improved by introducing explicit Theme–Rheme cues from
Xi Kang, Fang Kong, Zheng-Xian Gong
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Ideophones, rhemes, interpretants
Pragmatics and Society, 2014This commentary considers the depictive quality of ideophones within the context of a general semiotic. I seek to expand the limited uptake of iconicity in linguistic theory from a resemblance between sign and object along Peirce’s second trichotomy (icon, index, symbol) to discuss iconicity from the often overlooked perspective of Peirce’s third ...
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Historiographia 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.
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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.
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Rheme and reason: Why is English always the Theme rather than the Rheme in our acronyms?
English Today, 2011The 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.
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Arguments for Seeing Theme-Rheme and Topic-Comment as Separate Functional Structures *
Systemic Functional Language Description, 2019clause), but the Theme is not necessarily ‘context-dependent,’ so the two are separate features.
Randy J. LaPolla
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The Rheme/Dicent/Argument Distinction
1981I will be concerned here with an important distinction of sign-type which has yet to be used effectively in applied semiotic, as far as I know: the Peircean distinction between a rheme, a dicent, and an argument (in a generalized sense of this word). The kind of application this distinction has is clearest to me in the case of the critical analysis of ...
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N-rhemes in English problem–solution texts
English Text Construction, 2011It has been claimed that the last constituent of the clause, the N-rheme, is the part of the message which the writer wants the reader to remember and which is most likely to correlate with the goals of the text (Fries 2002). This study investigates the N-rhemes in two samples of problem–solution texts written by advanced Swedish learners of English ...
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