The inference-boundary model reinterpreting theme and rheme

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Leong, Ping Alvin
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100660; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18180
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The Hallidayan notions of theme and rheme pose an interesting challenge to linguists in their attempts to pin them down more specifically. This paper argues that since the thematic structure of the clause organises it as a message, a useful starting point in theme–rheme research is an understanding...