Using Theme-Rheme Analysis for Improving Coherence and Cohesion in Target-Texts: A Methodological Approach

cohesion and cohesive devices in a contrastive analysis between ge and esp texts

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

Semi-automatic Theme-Rheme Identification

In this paper we start from the theory of the Functional Sentence Perspective developed primarily by Firbas [1], Svoboda [2] and also Sgall, Hajičová [3] and make an attempt to formulate a procedure allowing to semi-automatically recognize which sentence constituents carry information that is contextually dependent and thus known to an adressee (theme), constituents containing new information (...

Marking Theme and Rheme in Preverbal Messages *

Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Steedman, 2000, 2006) shows that certain intonational patterns in English mark an utterance’s theme and rheme (L+H* and H*, respectively). The incremental conceptualiser (inC) can be extended to produce preverbal messages (semantic representations) containing the required marking of theme and rheme for pointing out a mismatch between the maps in the Map Task. Thi...

Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts

A Pragmatic Concept Of Theme And Rheme For Machine Translation

The concept of theme and rheme we want to propose in this paper is pragmatic in two senses of the wordz the theme/ theme structure (TRS) is viewed as a strategy of communication and thus belongs to pra~natics, and it seems to offer a pragmatic solution for a problem of machine translation. The starting-point of our considerations is defined by several arEuments claiming the ne@essity to preserv...