This paper shows how the syntactic strategies in assigning informational prominence in clause structures can be exploited in phrases. The thematic approach to phrases will shed clear light on the marked word order of elements in noun phrase (NP) and on how this allows increasing the degree of prominence of a component in NP. This is a general claim about different thematic strategies in NP whic...

Ray Bradbury’s literary dystopia, Fahrenheit 451 has attracted international attention since its publication with rich content, subject matter, characterization, and thematization. Relevant critical scholarship on the novella increased in number radically over years, but an article discussing concept of happiness controversial nature does not exist yet. This will therefore discuss how hedonism ...

This research aimed to find out how the thematic progression structure is applied in background of students’ project proposal and functions achieve cohesion proposal. The objectives this were explain function studies section final used a descriptive qualitative approach. Fifteen proposals as source data. findings reveal that constant theme was primarily pattern thematization organize writings. ...

There are two common ways to assign relative importance in spoken language: tonic prominence and thematization. The former is expressing the main points of information units in speech (Halliday, 1994), and the latter is putting an element at the beginning of a clause. This study explores how relative importance is realized in English and Persian. It also investigates how advanced Persian learne...

Despite the heterogeneity of ideas regarding the definitions of genre, there are also common instances shared among scholars interested in particular aspects of the notion. Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993) are primarily interested in the sociological and psychological aspects of genre's functioning and construction, respectively.. Swales analyzes the genre of 'article introduction', into four ge...