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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, Ondrej Svoboda
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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).
Wafda raudhatul Hilyah +2 more
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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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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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A simple test for theme and rheme in the clause complex
Language Sciences, 1995Abstract This work concerns thematic structure of the clause complex. It points out some deficiencies associated with already proposed criteria for the identification of theme and rheme in discourse. It suggests a definition of thematic structure depending on the illocutionary aim of the parts of any utterance, conceived as a message.
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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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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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The nature of theme and rheme accents
2006It has increasingly been recognised that appropriate intonation is essential to create believable voices for speech synthesis. This is particularly true in dialogue, where the link between intonation and meaning is especially important. Here we report two experiments, a production and perception study, which test an aspect of Steedman's (2000) theory ...
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