Halliday (1967b, p.212) characterises the function of Theme as "the point of departure for the clause as a message" – which some might call the 'ground' of the clause – and it is developed in the remainder of the clause, which is referred to as Rheme.
It will be observed that when both themes appear recapitulated in the tonic, the function of the transition between themes differs from that in the exposition, in which it leads from one key to another.
Bernstein was speaking at a function organised on the theme of kicking racism and violence out of sport, with special reference to Israeli football.
How the family members in this study managed is summarized by the theme Striving to be prepared for the painful, which expresses the function of the seven underlying sub-themes or strategies.
Each argument of theme is a pairing of a specific theme element with a function call that modifies one or more properties of the theme element.
However, Theme is a function of the clause, while Information operates independently of clause grammar in speech.
We then examined these themes as a function of the participant's coded discordance status (vide ibid).
An important over-arching theme to emerge was the social function of the group for carers.
