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Full Description
This text discusses the concept of theme and its application as an analytical tool to a number of spoken and written registers of English. To date, studies of text organization have paid less attention to what is called the "method of development" of a text, that is thematic organization. The book shows that the study of this organization can reveal many different strategies employed by speakers and writers when texts are created.
Contents
Part 1 Emergence and development of the concept of the themeintroduction - a personal view of theme; theme as an enabling resource in ideational "knowledge" construction. Part 2 Practical implications of thematic development: thematic options and success in writing; thematic development and translation. Part 3 Thematic development in academic and non-academic texts: theme, processes and the realization of meanings in academic articles; the relationship between the thematic development and structural elements in the text. Part 4 Contribution of thematic development to stylistics: thematic layering and focus assignment in Chaucer's "General Prologue" to "The Canterbury Tales"; marked theme and its interpretation in A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". Part 5 The company that these keeps: the pit after the theme; a contribution on a panel discussion on theme. Part 6 Thematic development and textual accountability: more than what the message is about - English theme; studying thematic development in on-line documentation using the Functional Semantic Processor.
