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On subject and theme : a discourse functional perspective / edited by Ruqaiya Hasan, Peter H. Fries.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 118.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 118
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (469 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the formal criteria for their recognition and the relations between the two concepts. Using the systemic functional model as their point of departure, the papers in the present volume consider the two notions in a wider context by relating them to the interpersonal and textual metafunctions of language.
- Contents:
- Approaching the French clause as a move in dialogue / Alice Caffarel
- Mood and the ecosocial dynamics of semiotic exchange / Paul J. Thibault
- The English "tag question" / Bill McGregor
- "Nothing" makes sense in Weri / Maurice Boxwell
- Subjectlessness and honorifics in Japanese / Motoko Hori
- A dynamic perspective implications for metafunctional interaction and an understanding of theme / L.J. Ravelli
- Subject and theme in Chines / Fang Yan, Edward McDonald, Cheng Musheng
- A systemic-functional approach to the thematic structure of the Old English clause / Michael Cummings
- Themes, methods of development, and texts / Peter H. Fries
- Defining and relating text segments / Carmel Cloran.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-16215-2
- 9786612162152
- 90-272-9775-4
- OCLC:
- 70769310
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