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On the Analysis and Research of Thematic Structure in Speech Text

WU An-ping

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Theme is an important concept in systemic functional grammar, which was first proposed by the founder of Prague School, V. Mathesius. After that, British famous linguist Halliday, in his`An Introduction to Functional Grammar'(1994/2000) pointed out, any clause or discourse can be divided into two semantic parts:theme and rheme from the perspective of communicative function. This paper, with the foundation of the theory of functional grammar(FG), starting with the theme in the textual metafunction , and with the example of the analysis of famous speech `I have a dream', states the function of thematic structure and thematic progrssion in the speech textual analysis.

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Theme is an important concept in systemic functional grammar, which was first proposed by the founder of Prague School, V. Mathesius. After that, British famous linguist Halliday, in his`An Introduction to Functional Grammar'(1994/2000) pointed out, any clause or discourse can be divided into two semantic parts:theme and rheme from the perspective of communicative function. This paper, with the foundation of the theory of functional grammar(FG), starting with the theme in the textual metafunction , and with the example of the analysis of famous speech `I have a dream', states the function of thematic structure and thematic progrssion in the speech textual analysis.

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Theme is an important concept in systemic functional grammar, which was first proposed by the founder of Prague School, V. Mathesius. After that, British famous linguist Halliday, in his`An Introduction to Functional Grammar'(1994/2000) pointed out, any clause or discourse can be divided into two semantic parts:theme and rheme from the perspective of communicative function. This paper, with the foundation of the theory of functional grammar(FG), starting with the theme in the textual metafunction , and with the example of the analysis of famous speech `I have a dream', states the function of thematic structure and thematic progrssion in the speech textual analysis.

Key concepts: Thematic structure, Linguistics, Theme (computing), Systemic functional grammar, Grammar, Perspective (graphical), Computer science, Lexical functional grammar

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