Thematic development in English texts / edited by Mohsen Ghadessy. - xviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Open linguistics series . - Open linguistics series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- A personal view of Theme -- THEME as an enabling resource in ideational 'knowledge' construction -- Thematic options and success in writing -- Thematic development and translation -- Theme, processes and the realization of meanings in academic articles -- Thematic development and its relationship to registers and genres -- Thematic layering and focus assignment in Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales -- Marked Theme and its interpretation in A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad -- The Pit after the Theme -- A contribution on a panel discussion on Rheme -- More than what the message is about: English Theme -- Studying thematic development in on-line help documentation using the Functional Semantic Processor -- Name index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.



1855673339 9781855673335

95009963


English language--Discourse analysis

PE1422 / .T5 1995

420.141