Thematicity in English academic research articles across disciplines in hard and soft sciences

• Main Author: Ebrahimi, Seyed Foad
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: English language - Topic and comment; Academic writing - Study and teaching; English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39665/1/FBMK%202014%2015.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39665/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Theme which is defined as the starting point of the message and the element which the clause is mainly about plays a major role in text organization (Halliday, 1994). This study explores the types and discourse functions of theme in the research articles and its four rhetorical sections (introducti...