Theme and Context Dependency: Thematic Progression

A Comparison of Thematic Choices and Thematic Progression Patterns in the Research Articles of Well-established and Emerging Disciplines

Several studies have employed the theme-rheme construct to examine the generic profile of research articles (RAs). However, they have mostly focused on the subject matter and nature of disciplines, and other disciplinary characteristics as contextual factors which can impact the genre realization have not been considered in the discourse analysis research. This work, therefore, inve...

Theme and Thematic Patterns in Spanish and English History Texts

Thematic Role Assignment in Context

Two experiments are described in which participants read sentences of the form “He drank some . . .” in contexts which either did or did not introduce something drinkable. Participants were more likely to report that the sentence stopped making sense at the verb “drank” if nothing drinkable had been introduced. When participants responded, in this case, that the verb did make sense, their react...

Thematic Progression Patterns in the English News and the Persian Translation

Thematic progression pattern as the method of development of the text insures that the reader follows the right path in understanding the text; in this regard, this subject is attracting considerable interest among discourse analysts. This paper calls into question the status of thematic progression in the process of translating English news into Persian. With this in mind, we analyzed the them...

Context-Sensitive Dependency Pairs

Termination is one of the most interesting problems when dealing with context-sensitive rewrite systems. Although there is a good number of techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting (CSR), the dependency pair approach, one of the most powerful techniques for proving termination of rewriting, has not been investigated in connection with proofs of termination of CSR. In th...