Theme: Topic or Discourse Framework?

Halliday's notion of (Topical) Theme has been questioned by Huddleston and Downing, inter alia. Their criticism focuses on the idea that the first element in an English clause, Halliday’s (Topical) Theme, does not always identify “what the clause is about.” This debate rests on three different...

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Main Author: María A. Gómez González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza 1996-12-01
Series:Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
Online Access:https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/11038
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