Theme-Rheme theory is one of the important components in text linguistics, which is closely related to language teaching and learning. This paper applies the Theme-Rheme theory in EFL reading teaching for nonEnglish majors in college, and explores its influence on students’ EFL reading proficiency. The result of this study proves that the Theme-Rheme theory is an effective system and it has cer...

This paper investigates the prosodic realization of information structure categories in Standard Chinese. A number of proper names with different tonal combinations were elicited as a grammatical subject in five pragmatic contexts. Results show that both duration and F0 range of the tonal realizations were adjusted to signal the information structure categories (i.e. theme vs. rheme and backgro...

This study aims to find out which theme is mostly used in the news text entitled “Health Ministry Ensures No Data Leak PeduliLindungi App” and identify kinds of patterns thematic progression text. The method for this descriptive qualitative. uses Paltridge (2012) Halliday (1985) rheme as grounded theory. result showed that most from textual pattern multiple themes or split rheme. kind by consid...

Previous research has identified the nominal group as the most distinctive feature of the research article title. In contrast, the findings reported in this paper suggest Theme/Rheme is the dominant structure in title text. Theme/Rheme structures order and tie nominal groups in titles. When a title starts with a methodological term the first position nominal group acts as a theme marker. Thus, ...

previous research has identified the nominal group as the most distinctive feature of the research article title. in contrast, the findings reported in this paper suggest theme/rheme is the dominant structure in title text. theme/rheme structures order and tie nominal groups in titles. when a title starts with a methodological term the first position nominal group acts as a theme marker. thus, ...

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 (...

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...

This study deals with the Theme and Rheme in Peterpan novel. The objective of this was to find out kinds dominant kind conducted by applying descriptive qualitative research design. data were taken from novel chapter I until XVII. It found that there 6 study, namely: Simple 11 clauses or 16.41%, Multiple 9 13.43%, Unmarked 17 25.37%, 18 26.86%, Marked 2 2.98%, 10 14.92%. meant because easier se...