The process of thematization is related to Halliday's model of Theme-Rheme and the selection of these elements in the clause.
By analysing these processes in relation to Halliday's model of Theme-Rheme and Given-New information, we hope to shed some light on news media practices, which shape social meanings and influence the readers' perception and interpretation of the news.
This paper, which is an extract from my doctoral thesis, is the first attempt to adopt Halliday's functional model of Theme-Rheme in Arabic and apply his understanding of the clause as a message to English and Arabic news reports.
Each theme is described below in greater detail with illustrative quotations, and a conceptual model of theme 3 (the Optimal Care Model) is presented.
A coding framework of themes was developed based on the theoretical model.
The concepts were examined for similarities and differences and then grouped into a model structure of themes.
Within the bio-psycho-social models of addiction theme, defining substance misuse, dependence and addictive behaviour was the most frequently taught topic in medical education (n = 291, an average of 16 sessions per medical school).
(NOW monitored the image of women on the four prime-time networks during the February sweeps period and will issue a report on incidents and types of violence, stereotypes, positive role models and the social relevance of themes. They could not have been luckier in their choice of month to study).
The Akaike information criterion (AIC) value, within a sequential logistic regression model, was used to measure the adequacy of the fitted models for each theme and combination of themes predicting the dichotomous outcome variable (unorthodox view versus all others) [ 30].
The Debussy, in contrast, is based in sheer pictorialism, yet it may have served as a model in its evolutionary development of themes.
