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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
1996-12-01
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| 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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