Theme-Rheme Patterns In English And Persian Scientific Texts

The theme /rheme construct has been widely studied in English over the last few years proving to be a very important cohesive element at discourse level (Fries, ۱۹۸۱, ۱۹۹۲, ۱۹۹۴, ۱۹۹۵, Martin, ۱۹۹۲, ۱۹۹۵). The way information is organized in the thematic and rhematic clauses is one of the textual strategies employed by discourse producers.The present study investigates the thematic organization across scientific genre in Persian and English. It also attempts to locate the relationship between theme position elements and topic related nodes in terms of their physical and semantic distance from the central topic as well as their grammatical properties (i.e., the degree of their markedness).

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Theme-Rheme Patterns ، English Scientific Texts ، Persian Scientific Texts