Sentence examples for theme position from inspiring English sources

Most of the temporal resources in Bowen's introduction are instantiated as ranking circumstances, with five in Theme position.

Second, the bullet points allow for all listed key features of an aspect to be understood as Thematic, so each one is foregrounded in Theme position.

Zohoy established rapport with the readers and showed consideration for his fellow members through the use of the first person plural pronoun 'we' in Theme position.

While in Patrick there are many temporal meanings instantiated as circumstances (7/18 or 38.8%), only three of these are in Theme position.

As Table 4 shows, almost all the temporal meanings occur as ranking circumstances, (five of them in topical Theme position), further demonstrating the foregrounding of time as point of departure in history.

The visual representation of Paul and Alice in Theme position creates immediacy and direct emotional impact, making an emotive appeal to the viewer, whereas the ensuing message in the Rheme provides hard facts about the two children and details the NGO's response, providing grounds for their appeal to the reader to donate funds.

Ten letters include a photograph in hyper-Theme position, as illustrated in Figure 1. Figure 1 Fundraising letter, SOS Village d'Enfants.

In other words, the representation of two of the NGO's beneficiaries in hyper-Theme position formulates the event visually and solicits the generosity of potential donors by virtue of its emotive impact.

Martin (2001) highlights the relationship between higher order Theme and evaluation, and the ways in which a photograph in hyper-Theme position may function as an evaluative Theme, orienting readers to and naturalizing the stance from which the ensuing verbal Rheme can be read.

In the same manner, the photograph in hyper-Theme position in the fundraising letter by Le rire médecin, an association that promotes the use of clowns in hospital paediatric wards (Figure 3), sets a clear narrative that the reader can observe at leisure.

In LAC, a transitive or intransitive verb following 可 kě is usually passivized (or unaccusative), i.e. its internal argument appears in subject position as a theme/patient subject and the embedded verb is resultative [+TELIC/TERMINATIVE] as in example 12a from LAC and in 12b from Han Chinese.