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: Cummings, M. (2003). The role of theme and rheme in contrasting methods of organization of texts. In Butler, C. (Ed.) Dynamics of language use: Functional and contrastive perspectives (129-154). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. : Raposo, Eduardo y Juan Uriagereka. 1995. "Two Types of Small Clauses (Toward a Syntax of Theme/ Rheme Relations)". En Small Clauses. Eds., Cardinaletti and M.T. Guasti. New York: Academic Press, 179-206. : The previous example shows the new information or rheme being picked up as given information or theme in the subsequent clause. This zig-zag pattern is used to achieve "cohesion in the text by building on newly introduced information" (Eggins, 1994 p. 304). : Wang, L. (2007). Theme and rheme in the thematic organization of text: Implications for teaching academic writing. Asian EFL Journal, 9(1), 164-176. |