Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills

Hannay, Mike

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“…However, very often a Theme zone does not include a single ideationalalso called experiential (Halliday, 1994) or topical (Eggins, 2004;Fetzer, 2008) -Theme, but also other metafunctions such as textual and interpersonal Themes (ibid. ; Hannay, 2007). An area of research emerging from discourse studies into multiple Themes attempts to cover not only the original Hallidayan sequence-based definition of pre-topical textual and interpersonal Themes, but also their possible occurrence in the post-topical configuration (e.g.…”

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“…Whereas Halliday and Matthiessen (2004;, Eggins (2004) and Fetzer (2008) all adhere to the term "topical Theme" and some authors (e.g. Givón, 1995 andDontcheva-Navratilova, 2011) talk about "topical coherence" in this respect, Hannay (2007) and Thompson (2014) keep to the label "experiential Theme". Leech (1983), Halliday (1971;1978;1989; and Hyland (2004; talk about the "ideational" language function.…”

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“…Thus two-component multiple Themes may be realized by the unmarked configurations [textual Theme] followed by [topical Theme], or [interpersonal Theme] followed by [topical Theme]; the marked patterns comprise configurations with post-topical thematic elements, i.e. [topical Theme] followed by [textual Theme] and [topical Theme] followed by [interpersonal Theme] (cf Hannay, 2007;Fetzer, 2008…”

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Intercultural variation in academic discourse: Theme zones and the build-up of coherence in research articles

Hůlková

Dontcheva-Navratilová

Jančaříková

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Topics in Linguistics

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This paper explores the form and function of the initial part of a sentence, the “Theme zone” (Hannay, 1994; Fetzer, 2008), in the genre of research articles, with a threefold purpose. First, it deals with a comparative analysis of Theme zone patterns (i.e. employment of simple and multiple Themes – the latter being several different configurations of topical, interpersonal and textual Themes) in a corpus of research articles written by English authors and Czech EAL writers. The aim is to determine to what extent these writers differ in thematization and trace possible reasons for the differences. Second, the study offers an intercultural comparison of the realizations of topical, interpersonal and textual Themes, and finally, it looks into thematic progression in two excerpts from the corpus and how the Theme zone contributes to the construal of textual, interpersonal and topical coherence. In all three parts, intercultural variation can be observed, be it Czech authors’ preference for the [textual Theme] [topical Theme] configuration, their more frequent use of exclusive we and abstract rhetors in topical Themes and higher employment of textual Themes in the Theme zone, or their inclination to build coherence on a local rather than a more global level.

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Hůlková

Dontcheva-Navratilová

Jančaříková

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“…Au-delà de l'étude ici menée, d'autres aspects mériteraient d'être explorés. Il serait ainsi intéressant d'observer quels éléments, parmi ceux que l'on rencontre en position préverbale, peuvent aussi occuper une position après le sujet et/ou le verbe (voir dans cette perspective Hannay 2007, et Virtanen 2004 ). Cette piste nous semble prometteuse en particulier pour les éléments logico-pragmatiques et les commentaires, ainsi que pour les éléments spatiaux-temporels.…”

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Mélanie-Becquet¹,

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2014

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“…Erteschik-Shir ignores many previous studies that have made these distinctions and/or have explored the wide range of functionally different elements (textual, interpersonal or experiential) which can be harboured within the theme zone, yielding a varied typology of configurations and scopal relationships. For a more detailed discussion of these issues, see Downing (1991), Fetzer (2006, Gómez-González (1998, 2001, Hannay (1994Hannay ( , 2007 and Goutsos (1997), and the references therein.…”

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Review of Erteschik-Shir (2007): Information structure: The syntax-discourse interface

González¹

2009

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ReviewsNomi Erteschik-Shir. 2007. Information structure: The syntax-discourse interface. Oxford: Oxford University Press. vii + 246 pp. (ISBN 978-0-19-926258-8 (hb) / 978-0-19-926259-5 (pb)) Reviewed by María de los Ángeles Gómez-González (University of Santiago de Compostela)This book is of interest to those studying, researching, and teaching in the variously labelled field of 'information structure' (IS) (Halliday 1967), 'information packaging' (Chafe 1976), or 'information flow' (Chafe 1979), which explores the strategies whereby information is expressed to meet the communicative demands of a particular situation, a central topic in linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, information science and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the 'information age' , there is no consensus in modern linguistics on the place of information structure in the grammar, nor on what a theory of IS should look like. Two factors contribute to this controversy. One is the fact that, for better or worse, IS is rife with theoretical frameworks, each with its own focus, with the effect that a considerable range of definitions, identificational criteria and terminology for IS categories have mushroomed in a myriad of studies. The second reason is the wide coverage of the field. For IS not only relates to virtually all the established levels of linguistic description, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and semantico-pragmatic, but also, in order to achieve explanatory adequacy, IS accounts integrate cross-disciplinary insights from rhetoric, sociology, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, computing science, literary studies, and cultural or ethnographic studies. And, still further, there is an enormous variation in the particular IS devices attested by cross-linguistic investigations.

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Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills

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Intercultural variation in academic discourse: Theme zones and the build-up of coherence in research articles

Intercultural variation in academic discourse: Theme zones and the build-up of coherence in research articles

Eléments initiaux : combinaisons et schémas préférentiels dans un corpus d’articles scientifiques

Review of Erteschik-Shir (2007): Information structure: The syntax-discourse interface

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