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An Experiment with Theme–Rheme Identification
2014In this paper we start from the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective developed primarily by Firbas [1], Svoboda [12] and also later by Sgall et al. [9].
Karel Pala, Ondřej Svoboda
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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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CTRD: A Chinese Theme-Rheme Discourse Dataset
2021Discourse 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 +5 more
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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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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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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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Theme-rheme progression as a cognitive mechanism of comic
The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Series: Foreign Philology. Methods of Foreign Language Teaching, 2017In the article, a research of theme-rheme progression is first offered as a cognitive mechanism of creation comic. The offered mechanism lies in the creation of a humorous effect through language expression of stylistic devices in the theme of super phrase unity.
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Rheme before theme in the noun phrase
Studies in Language, 2008Information structure in the noun phrase remains unexplored or limited to the study of the s-form and the of-form in English, which are interpreted from the perspective of the Prague School. Accordingly, the prenominal s-form is chosen if the possessor expresses old information; conversely, if the possessor expresses new information, the postnominal of-
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