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Topic: Rheme

	Thematic Progression as a Functional Resource in Analysing Texts
		This concentration on either Theme or Rheme or Rheme, rather than the relationship between the two over stretches of text perhaps derives from Halliday's early statement that 'thematization is independent of what has gone before' (1967:17), and which is challenged by Danes (1974:109).
		Firbas points out that it is (typically) the Rheme that represents the core of the utterance (the message proper) and 'pushes the communication forward'; however, from the point of view of text organisation it is the Theme that plays an important constructing role.
		The Rhemes in (2) and (3) appear to have the purpose of introducing something of the island's history.
	www.ucm.es /info/circulo/no5/downing.htm (5224 words)

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		Based on schema theory and the role of inferences in language processing, the IB model holds that theme is the clause-initial segment that is capable of generating a boundary of acceptability, within which it is permissible for the rheme to occur.
		Rhemes which fall outside the boundary are blocked from co-occurring with the theme since this would result in an unacceptable construction.
		We shall refer to this as the principle of acceptable message development (AMD), which states: The AMD principle dictates that the thematic head of a clause must be acceptably developed by the rheme in the context of the interactive encounter, whether in the written or spoken mode.
	www.shakespeare.uk.net /journal/2_2/ping.doc (5447 words)

	1.3.1 Theme (/ rheme) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The hallmarks of the Prague school are the division of the communicative structure of the sentence into two areas (theme - rheme) or into three (theme - transitional zone - rheme) and the simultaneous assumption that this is the basic order if there is no co(n)textual reason for changing it.
		Some authors try to determine the theme and rheme by means of the information value for the discourse of the various parts of the sentence.
		Others assess the theme and rheme according to the contribution of parts of the sentence to the (further) development of a discourse.
	angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de /discourse&grammar/text/d131.htm (579 words)

	Article - Rhetoric in surrealism´s double discourse
		But if one level of the rhetorics is more strange than another and this part as a rheme is transferred onto the familiar part as a theme an estrangement will occur (fig 1).
		What in the picture, as a rheme, is transferred to the lifeworld (as theme) is then according to Breton an upwardgoing movement that in the long run will make the lifeworld more spiritualized.
		What Lakoff calls source, or with Halliday rheme, is transferred to man and his special properties, reason, moral, art etc.will momentarily be annihilated for the advantage of lower biological properties that man shares with the plant.
	www.educ.umu.se /~marner/rhetorics.html (2604 words)

	Commens Peirce Dictionary: Rhema, Rheme
		There may be any integer non-negative number of blanks, so that the term rheme is extended even to a full proposition, when it is looked upon as having a number of blanks which happens to be zero" ('The Basis of Pragmaticism', MS 280:19-20, c.
		But this is as much as to say that logically their meaning is the same; and it is for that reason that I venture to use the old, familiar word "term" to denote the rhema." ('New Elements', EP 2:310, c.
		"A Rheme is a Sign which, for its Interpretant, is a Sign of qualitative Possibility, that is, is understood as representing such and such a kind of possible Object.
	www.helsinki.fi /science/commens/terms/rhema.html (931 words)

	The ``Meaning'' of Intonation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The rheme of the utterance provides a specific entity that satisfies the proposition.
		As we can see in (3), the theme represents all the people who are on call and the rheme restricts this set of people to Dr.
		According to Steedman, theme and rheme each has its own pitch accents as in (4).
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~gbierner/research/TraumaTalk/amia98/node4.html (113 words)

	Assigning Intonation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The rheme is the portion of the utterance that provides a specific entity that satisfies the proposition.
		LL§ is a boundary tone indicating the end of the rheme.
		Within the theme and rheme, pitch accents indicate what entities should be stressed.
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~gbierner/research/TraumaTalk/traum/node2.html (188 words)

	Marked Syntax in Maya Angelou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		With regard to the analysis of the structure in terms of theme and rheme, the theme is there and the rheme the rest of the structure.
		As regards the analysis of the structure in terms of theme and rheme, we have to say that the theme is it and the rheme the rest of the structure.
		In relation to the analysis of the structure in terms of theme and rheme, we have to say that the theme is the part of the structure before the passive verb and the rheme the rest of the sentence.
	www.shakespeare.uk.net /journal/jllit/1_1/lirola_lit_1_1.html (2834 words)

	AS/SA No 10, Article 2 : Thorkild THELEFFSEN, "The Epistemology of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies"
		That is why the relation between the Rheme, the Dicent sign and the Argument is the same in an inference.
		The basic sign is the Qualisign and both the Icon and the Rheme are constructed on the basis of the Qualisign.
		Within the Dicent sign is the Rheme, and in the Sinsign there is one or many Qualisigns, and in the Index is the Icon.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /french/as-sa/ASSA-No10/No10-A2.html (4094 words)

	analysis
		A Rheme is only stating the existence of the object to the interpretant, and in this case, the object is singer Elizabeth Fraser.
		Another way a rheme can be defined is if we think of it in a textual structure.
		To consider Fraser’s cool voice sailing high above the guitars and percussion in any of Cocteau’s songs and recognize that she sounds similar to a synthesizer hitting and sustaining those notes, in that sense, Fraser’s voice is noted in semiotic terms as being Iconic to a synthesizer, or an icon of it.
	www.cocteautwins.org /analysis.htm (2656 words)

	Introduction to Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Aristotelian logic claims that a sentence is an utterance consisting of subject and predicate.
		Here, theme means the part of the sentence that is already known and that is to be specified.
		Rheme then means the specifying part, the new information revealed on the theme.
	www.uni-kassel.de /fb8/misc/lfb/html/text/10-1-1.html (116 words)

	Literary Stylistics Notes no. 15, Ismail S Talib: Theme-Rheme & Given-New 1
		In a course in literary stylistics, it is perhaps appropriate for one to mention at the outset that the term theme here is used quite differently from the way it is generally understood in literary analysis.
		In relation to its meaning here, we have noted an earlier lecture that 'there is no necessity for the Subject-Finite-Predicator- Complement-Adjunct pattern to be present in the given order in a simple declarative clause in the active voice'.
		The line of demarcation between theme and rheme is thus invariably drawn between the end of the topical theme and before the beginning of the next constituent; the next constituent is the initiator of the rheme.
	courses.nus.edu.sg /course/ellibst/lsl15.html (1274 words)

	Fichier HTML
		The sign-object relations (icon, index and symbol) and its interpretation (rheme, dicent and argument) is the subject of Turino's focus in this article.
		The symbol-argument semiotics Turino discards as less applicable to discussions of music, in as that they are mediated by language.
		rheme- sign represents an object as a possibility; e.g.
	ramstrum.com /momilani/html/SEMI.HTM (810 words)

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		What is particularly interesting is that the nature of the Qualisign is identical to the nature of the Rheme but displaced through the Icon.
		This means that the Rheme, the Dicent Sign and the Argument are anchored in the Qualisign, the Sinsign and the Legisign and will carry the signs of Firstness.
		The aim of this article is to stress that, in a cognitive process, the signs of Firstness are reflected in the signs of Secondness and become signs of Thirdness.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /see/SEED/Vol1-2/Thellefsen.htm (5464 words)

	tatyana_yanko_abstract
		I argue that whether an adverbial belongs to the theme of a sentence or it can solely be the rheme may depend on the aspectual properties of the verb.
		E.V.Paducheva (1997) noted that in the context of the general factual meaning of the Russian imperfective aspect the adverbial DAVNO is always the rheme of a sentence (I mark the accented word of the rheme with capital letters; an asterisk indicates ungrammaticality):
		Hence, we may hypothesize that the general factual meaning is not the only context in which DAVNO is obligatorily the rheme.
	www.unc.edu /depts/seelrc/tatyana_yanko_abstract.htm (928 words)

	Tema och rema i vetenskaplig och populärvetenskaplig text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The aim of the present study is to compare Swedish scientific and popular scientific texts from two fields of science, physics and archeology, with regard to theme and rheme.
		Consequently, theme and rheme are analysed textually in a two-way process where each utterance is seen with regard to the whole text.
		The results of the study indicate that the different levels of shared knowledge between the writer and the reader of science and popular science affect the writer's choices of theme and rheme and the way these are combined to form a text.
	www.uwasa.fi /hut/svenska/abstract3.html (369 words)

	4.1.3.3 Functional grammar
		For Halliday, the theme is the starting point of the communication chosen by the speaker, whilst the rheme is the remaining part which develops the theme.
		On this level of analysis, it is clear that John appears in the rhematic position as the information focus, i.e.
		the theme predication is a grammatical structure which restores the congruence of theme and given, as well as rheme and new, to the normal case.
	angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de /discourse&grammar/Text/d4133.htm (1328 words)

	DAOL: Themes in Personal Homepages: 6. The Theme
		The former system involves constituents that are labelled Given and New, and the latter system involves constituents that are labelled Theme and Rheme.
		The element which comes first in the clause is the Theme and what comes after it is the Rheme.
		According to Halliday the Theme analysis involves two layers of analysis: the Theme/Rheme analysis, and within the Theme the level of topical, textual, or interpersonal analysis (a multiple Theme analysis).
	www.shu.ac.uk /daol/articles/closed/2003/005/sandberg2003005-07.html (781 words)

	TKI - Fat Tax: Task 12: Theme and Rheme [ESOL Online]
		Writers usually begin sentences by referring to information known by the reader ('given information', which is not always exactly the same as the Theme) and then add the new information.
		The new information in the second sentence is ______________________________ and it is at the _______ of the sentence in Rheme position.
		The general population needs to be made fully aware of the risks to health by eating foods high in fat and sugar.
	www.tki.org.nz /esolonline/secondary_esol/classroom/ncea/fat_tax/task12_e.php (724 words)

	New and given: Basic definitions and theories
		The rheme of a sentence (or the new information) has the greatest degree of communicative dynamism whereas the theme has the lowest degree.
		FSP differentiates between a theme proper and other elements that belonged to the theme (or given information), and a rheme proper, the most salient or important new information in the context, and other new information that is part of the rheme (or new information).
		This would be similar to the distinction between rheme proper and rheme made by Prague scholars.
	www.ling.su.se /staff/jennifer/newgivenhandout.html (10451 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de - Transitivity, Mood, Theme / Rheme and Lexical Density / Grammatical Metaphors in Newsweek Magazine ...
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		The methods I have chosen for analysis are based on systemic functional linguistics theory and follow the analyses made in Martin et al.
		The first part of my analysis consists of exploring the basic categories of every research based on functional linguistics, the perspective of transitivity (experiential perspective), of mood (interpersonal perspective) and of theme / rheme (textual perspective).
	www.hausarbeiten.de /zeit/vorschau/54755.html (647 words)

	More on word order and thematic analysis
		Other things being equal, a speaker will choose the Theme from within what is Given and locate the focus, the climax of the New, somewhere within the Rheme.
		Theme + Rheme is speaker-oriented, while Given + New is listener-oriented.
		This may be the same as a clause complex, or less than a clause complex.
	folk.uio.no /hhasselg/systemic/Textual2.htm (1975 words)

	Photography and Surrealism
		I also use the notions of theme and rheme studied by the linguist Michael Halliday.
		Halliday talks about a theme rheme-relation which means that in a clause you separate what is talked about (theme) and what is said about this (rheme).3/ One could do the same with a picture.
		They are men in the (hidden) expressionplane, but they are shown as women in the contentplane.
	www2.educ.umu.se /~marner/thesis_surrealism.html (1090 words)

	JUTLP - vol 2 issue 3a
		According to systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1985), a clause has a starting point (a Theme), followed by a comment about that topic (a Rheme).
		The Theme is, then, the point where the writer and the reader share common ground, and the Rheme is the conceptual place where the writer then proceeds to take the reader in the remainder of the clause.
		Even that new space, however, is composed of words and ideas which will not be particularly 'original'.
	jutlp.uow.edu.au /2005_v02_i03a/johnson005.html (5020 words)

	jsl_10.htmll
		It is an important part of the explanatory structure of Babby 1980 that in sentence (i), the Theme is v magazine and the Rheme is kefir- [byl-].
		Babby takes Theme-Rheme structure to be crucial for determining the scope of negation, and scope of negation to be a necessary condition in licensing the occurrence of the genitive of negation.
		We now argue that independent of Theme-Rheme structure there is a relevant "perspective structure", a kind of diathesis choice, allowing a proposition involving a suitable verb to be structured with either of its two arguments as "Perspectival Center".
	slavica.com /jsl/jsl_10.html (1267 words)

	Seminar Spring 2000: Perspectives on Focus
		Rheme and Kontrast must be distinguished (where Rheme is basically non-topic, allowing for topicless sentences, and Kontrast is something which make a contrast set available for semantic computation).
		Topics can be either kontrastive or not; Rheme and Kontrast are independent features.
		Kontrast is claimed (not argued) not to be inherently exhaustive.
	www.cog.jhu.edu /~hagstrom/focsem2000.html (3719 words)

	A Roguish Chrestomathy - Rheme and reason
		Googlephrasing "is the best movie I've ever seen in my life" brings back a range of movies - all recent, but at wildly different levels of quality [emphasis added].
		First, there are quite a few reviews of older movies out there (especially as these films are re-released on DVD), and in the context of a review, the film will be a theme, not a rheme.
		Second, when you ask people to name their favourite movies, the ones they've seen more recently may be more salient in their minds, so there might still be a bias toward recent films even in rheme position.
	q-pheevr.livejournal.com /4160.html (408 words)

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		Within the description of the solution, information presented as New and also within the Rheme typically is cohesive with the earlier description of the problem.
		Paper 3 applies SFL discourse analysis techniques to spoken texts of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to identify distinctive patterns of cohesion and information structure which affect interpretation and genre structure.
		Might explicit discussion of the lexicogrammatical features Theme and Rheme be useful to children in addressing this task?
	www.yorku.ca /cummings/nasfla/meetings/AAAL_Prog.doc (2091 words)

	HOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		....I like Rheme Cleo a great deal, their music allows one to take a trip and never leave the farm...nothing wrong with that!
		..Rheme Cleo has a unique sound…it’s an escape for the senses.
		A musical experience like you have never heard before.
	www.rhemecleo.com (108 words)

	Functional Approach-Section-6#17
		Thematic structure assigns the functions Theme and Rheme.
		The clause complex has one thematic structure as a whole (Theme 1 and Rheme 1 in the top row of the chart), and each clause itself also has a thematic structure (Theme 2 and Rheme 2 in the first clause, and Theme 3 and Rheme 3 in the second clause).
		In other words for the whole sentence, the dependent clause, If he brings the car functions as theme (Theme 1), while each clause has its own clausal theme.
	exchanges.state.gov /EDUCATION/ENGTEACHING/PUBS/BR/functionalsec6_17.htm (4413 words)

	Translation Course
		The rheme is the new information added to/about the theme.
		My brother lives in the Canaries implies that the theme my brother has already been introduced in the context; on the other hand the information as to where he lives is new, it constitutes the rheme of the proposition.
		Themes and rhemes can be located in various ways, in relation with one another.
	www.gazzaro.it /s/transl.htm (3103 words)

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