An Examination Of Textual Metafunction

The goal of this paper is to set the scene for the analyses to be carried out which aims to investigate and compare the placement patterns of adverbial conjunctive markers in English and French. Next section discusses a number of theoretical concepts in SFL which are central for the analyses of conjunctive marker placement. It first defines the textual metafunction, and then focuses more particularly on one of its subparts, viz. The system of thematic structure, which revolves around the notions of Theme and Rheme, then explores the links between the systems of thematic structure and conjunction.

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Systemic Functional Linguistics ، Viz ، CA ، Textual Metafunction ، Theme ، Rheme