TY - BOOK AU - Ghadessy,Mohsen TI - Thematic development in English texts T2 - Open linguistics series SN - 1855673339 AV - PE1422 .T5 1995 U1 - 420.141 20 PY - 1995/// CY - London, New York PB - Pinter Publishers KW - English language KW - Discourse analysis N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of contributors --; Foreword --; Introduction --; 1; A personal view of Theme --; 2; THEME as an enabling resource in ideational 'knowledge' construction --; 3; Thematic options and success in writing --; 4; Thematic development and translation --; 5; Theme, processes and the realization of meanings in academic articles --; 6; Thematic development and its relationship to registers and genres --; 7; Thematic layering and focus assignment in Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales --; 8; Marked Theme and its interpretation in A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad --; 9; The Pit after the Theme --; 10; A contribution on a panel discussion on Rheme --; 11; More than what the message is about: English Theme --; 12; Studying thematic development in on-line help documentation using the Functional Semantic Processor --; Name index --; Subject index; Also issued online ER -