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| 2.3. Thematic Analysis
The Russian word тема has two English equivalents: theme and topic . The term theme , on its turn, means two different things in syntax and in text linguistics. In syntax, it means “the part of the sentence which contains a starting point of the statement” 20 and is generally opposed to rheme – some kind of new information written about it. Thus, theme refers to what is given, what exists beyond any question, and, therefore, is known a priori. Generally, theme is associated with the subject of the sentence and with all the members of sentence referring to the subject (constituting a subject group ). Rheme , on the contrary, is predicative in its function and is connected with the predicate and its group. In text linguistics, theme is generally understood in its common meaning. E. Agricola formulated it as follows: “the sense nucleus, understood as a general concentration of the whole text contents”. 19 Клинг В. И. Композиционно-тематический аспект обзорной научной статьи // Текст в функционально-стилевом аспекте : сб. науч. тр. Вып. 309. М., 1988. С. 66–74. 20 Викулова Е. А. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка : учеб. пособие. С. 69. 47 The ideas of condensed contents , sense nucleus , meaningful core we find in a great lot of works (O. I. Moskalskaya, I. V. Arnold, T. V. Matveeva, T. V. Itskovich et al.). Webster’s Third New International Dictionary gives the following definitions: “a subject or topic on which one speaks or writes”; “a proposition for discussion”; “a subject of artistic representation”; “an idea, ideal, or orienting principle” 21 . Topic , as compared to theme , has a more specified meaning, rather connected with rhetoric or composition: “a prepared form of argument applicable to a great variety of cases”; “a heading in an outlined argument or exposition”; “a phrase summarizing what is to be presented in a discourse or a section in it” 22 . Thus, topic is a kind of a general plan (1 st definition), an opening or summarizing phrase, sentence (2 nd and 3 rd definitions). This understanding does not cover the idea of a text category. Therefore, the text category of тема is to be rendered in English with the help of the word theme . However, not all dictionaries provide satisfactory evidence of this. In Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary , we find the following definitions: жүктеу/скачать 6,13 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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