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Thematic Development - Coggle Diagram

- - - - It's the starting point of the message chosen by the speaker/writer.
        
        The main idea you're talking about, and it tells the reader or listner what the clause will be about.
      - THEME IN GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE
        
        Grammar
        
        The effect theme choice may have on the overall focus of a text;
        
        The degree of shared knowledge presupposed between writer/reader, speaker/listener.
        
        Discourse
        
        More control of theme development and overall text focus;
        
        An awareness of varying the manner of presenting and developing theme in text, leading to more complex and effective student speech and writing;
      - THEME IN DECLARATIVE CLAUSES
        
        Unmarked (Theme = Suject) :
        
        Marked (usually object/complement)
      - THEME IN PASSIVE CLAUSES
        
        The use of the passive allows other elements other than the agent, which in active clauses would be part of the rheme, to be introduced as theme.
      - INTERROGATIVE THEMES
        
        The natural theme of a question is‘what I want to know’.
      - IMPERATIVE THEMES
        
        Imperative clauses are used when you want someone to do something. So it is natural that the starting point, the theme, should be the action in question
      - EXCLAMATIVES THEME
        
        Theme in exclamative clauses: WH- element as Theme,
      - ELLIPTICAL THEMES
        
        This occurs because an element of the discourse may be carried ver from a previous element.
      - MULTIPLE THEMES
        
        Textual theme,
        
        Functioning to relate the meaning of the particular clause to other parts of the text. l (to do with how the text is
        held together).
        
        Interpersonal theme
        
        Often functioning to code the speaker’s or writer’s personal judgementon meaning. l (expressing some sort of attitude towards a statement)
      - EXISTENTIAL THERE AS THEME
        
        Often used to introduce new partipants into de discourse, after which they may be piced up as themes in new clauses, as given information
      - THEME IN CLAUSE COMPLEXES
        
        Two clauses can be conjoined
        
        One clause can be embedded as a participant inside another clause
        
        One clause can be subordinated to another by use of grammatical words such as as, while,
        because, so
    - - It's the remaining part that develops theme.
        
        What you say about the main idea.