topics

For this week our discussion will cover 6.1 to 6.6.6

 

Organizing the message: the textual metafunction –

Theme

6.1 Introduction: making messages fi t together

6.2 Theme

6.3 Identifying Theme

6.3.1 Theme in declarative clauses

6.3.2 Theme in non-declarative clauses

6.4 Special thematic structures

6.4.1 Thematic equatives

6.4.2 Predicated Theme

6.4.3 Thematized comment

6.4.4 Preposed Theme

6.4.5 Passive clauses and Theme

6.5 Theme in clause complexes

6.6 Multiple Theme

6.6.1 Conjunctions in Theme

6.6.2 Conjunctive and modal Adjuncts in Theme

6.6.3 Textual, interpersonal and experiential elements in

Theme

6.6.4 Interrogatives as multiple Themes

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