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The Split Rheme Pattern
The only other considerable region of dense population in the world lies in Japan. This country shows a remarkable fusion of both densely populated rural and urban communities. Japanese peasant farmers, who constitute 45 percent of the total population, practise a typical monsoon Asian subsistence economy, whereas the millions of people living in vast industrial cities such as Tokyo and Osaka have much in common with counterparts in Europe and North America.
The Constant Theme Pattern
That’s the future we hope for. That’s the vision we share. That’s where we need to go forward.
The Linear Theme Pattern
The stomach produces gastric juice, which contains dilute hydrochloric acid. The acid kills most of the bacteria in the food. The partly digested food passes next into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. This is a coiled tube about eight meters long, which is as wide as a man‟s thumb.
2. Interpersonal Theme:
the Finite, as in: Are you coming? Don’t touch that. a Wh- element: Why// can’t you come over tonight?
Multiple Theme
2. Interpersonal Theme:
Multiple Theme
3.Textual Theme:
--continuative components (yes，no， well，oh，now)， --structural components (and，or， nor， either， neither，but，yet, before) --conjunctive components (therefore， in other words, as far as I am concerned). --relatives (which, who, whose)
Simple Theme
Nominal Group
Topical Theme Adverbial Group
Prepositional Phrase
Simple Theme
Nominal Group as Theme
--An operating system runs a computer.
--The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking close at hand. (a nominal group complex)
Oh yes,
I
Topical Theme
dropped one of your pages.
Textual Theme
Rheme
Thematic Equatives
Theme = Rheme
What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.
Multiple Theme
Metafunction
Textual
Component of Theme
Continuative Structural and relative Conjunctive Vocative, Finite WH-, Adjunct Participant, Process, Circumstance
Mood --- clause as exchange
Theme--- clause as message
Content
1 2
3 4
Organizing the Idea Simple and Multiple Theme
Thematic Progression
Cohesion
1. Organizing the Idea
Unmarked Theme
Simple Theme
Adverbial Group as Theme
From house to house I wend my way. Prepositional Phrases as Theme
On the ground or in the air small creatures live and breathe
Marked Theme
Marked Theme in Declarative Clause
Complement as Theme
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife Nature I loved, and, next to nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ( Landor, 1775-1864)
Morning,
ladies and gentlemen,
last time
I was talking abou
Interpersonal Interpersonal Topical Theme Theme Theme
Rheme
Multiple Theme
a Vocative, identifying the addressee.
Mary, come here.
an Adjunct (adverbs expressing probability and desirability) perhaps, sadly, unfortunately, frankly
structure
Element
Participant, Process, Circumstance Mood, Residue; Modal Auxiliaries/ Adjuncts Theme/Rheme; Given/New
Transtivity --- clause as representation
Multiple Theme
1. Topical Theme (indispensable) : what the clause is about.
--Participant, Circumstance
--Process
„Stand up to speak!‟ shouted John.
Multiple Theme
The Split Rheme Pattern
Clause 1 Theme A + Rheme B + Rheme C
Clause 2
Theme B + Rheme
Clause 3
Theme C + Rheme
Derived Themes
--themes of successive clauses which may be regarded as related to some superordinate topic. For example, in a narrative account, we may notice repeated thematic references to significant chronological points, e.g. “early in the morning …. By late afternoon…. In the evening….”
(You) Given
Have New Theme
some bread and butter New Rheme
2. Simple and Multiple Theme Simple Theme: a single structural element. Multiple Theme: more than one semantic component
an identifying clause
3. Thematic Progression
--The Constant Theme Pattern --The Linear Theme Pattern --The Split Rheme Pattern
--Derived Themes
The Constant Theme Pattern
Information structure
Given and New
Thematic structure
Theme and Rheme
1. Organizing the Idea
Information structure
