Rheme and Text Construction

Rheme, as one of the functional parts of thematic structure realizing both ideational and interpersonal meanings, plays a significant role in text construction. It provides an important resource for textual information construction, as it contains the most informative part of the thematic structure, conveying a variety of information types. It specifies and articulates the semantic dimension and scope set by the theme so that the text point can be conveyed, and finally, its content changes with the different phases of the text development, enabling the establishment and realization of the pattern(s) in text.