Findings and Discussion: Theme in Workplace English Texts

1) What function does Theme perform in written workplace texts? After an initial analysis of the data, subsequent and more focused questions were developed. These more specific questions were theoretically oriented and focused primarily on identifying the boundary between Theme and Rheme, and the issues arising from decisions in this respect. A discussion of these questions, providing the theoretical grounding for the study, is presented in Chapter Three. A detailed account of the methodology for investigating the questions and the procedures for analysing the data is presented in Chapter Four. In this chapter, the findings of the analyses of the data are provided and discussed.