Textual meaning

Textual meaning is about the message for example, foregrounding/salience:type of cohesion. Textual meaning are concerned with the interaction of interpersonal and ideational information as text in context. Textual meanings are realized by system of Them/Rheme. Theme/Rheme selections establish the orientation or angle on the interpersonal and ideational concerns of the clause. Textual meaning comprises textual interactivity, spontaneity, and communicative distance (clausa as a message). Textual meaning is important in the creation of coherence in spoken and written texts.

Theme – Rheme

In a clause, the theme always comes first and shows the starting point of the message. At the end of the clause, where new information is located is called the rheme.

Theme is functionally occupied by the first element of the transitivity system of clause.

Type of the theme:

1.       Ideational theme or topical theme

·   In the unmarked case the Topical Theme is also the Subject.

·   A Topical Theme that is not the Subject is called a Marked Topical Theme.

·   The term marked is used because it stands out. It attracts attention because it is not what we normally expect to find.

·    Participant, process, or circumstance

2.       Interpersonal theme

·    Interpersonal elements occurring before the Topical Theme are also thematic.

·    They may be Modal Adjuncts, Vocatives, Finite or Wh-elements

3.       Textual theme

·    Relate the clause to its context.

·    Can be Continuatives and/or Conjunctive Adjuncts and Conjunctions.

·    The line between Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adjuncts is often a fine one. One difference is that Conjunctive Adjuncts are more free to move in a clause whereas Conjunctions are pretty well restricted to being at the beginning.

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analysis  : 

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created by: Ratu Airin Zakiyya Husna (202232044)