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Definition of Textual Metafunction
✢ Textual Metafunction is about the verbal world,
especially the flow of information in a text, and is
concerned with clauses as message.
✢ Focuses on the function of language to compose
clauses of sentences into one unified text.
✢ (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004), The textual
metafunction helps organise the message within
and between caluses, and is closely linked to
theories of cohesion.
✢ Textual metafunction concerned with the ordering
of information, with what come first, last and in the
middle, with what links the parts of a piece of
writing to each other so as to create a coherent
discourse.
Theme System
✢ The organization of information within
individual clauses, and through this,
with the organization of larger text.
✢ Theme system is linguistic system that
used to analyze the textual
metafunction meaning.
Relation between Textual
Metafunction and Theme System
Theme system is linguistic
system/linguistic tool to analyze the
meaning in Textual Metafunction
Theme Rheme
1. Element of Theme System
Theme
✢ Theme is the element which come first in
the clauses
✢ Theme is the point of departure of the
message
✢ Theme is the starting point for the
message, what clauses is going to be
about.
✢ Theme is used to signal what a message is
about and in written language, the writer’s
angle on the message, and to signpost the
development of a text.
2. Elements of Theme System
Rheme
✢ Rheme is the part of the clauses in
which the theme is developed
✢ Rheme is everything that is not the
theme.
Example “Theme-Rheme”
1. Seojun has finished his study
Theme Rheme
2. The television has done a lot of good thinfs to people in every aspect of life.
The television has done a lot of good thinfs to people in every aspect of life
Theme Rheme
Theme Rheme
Theme and Rheme – Given
Information and New Information
✢ In English, New Information/ unfamiliar
content usually presented in the
second clauses (Rheme)
✢ Where the Theme is developed as the
speaker’s tipically depart from the
familiar to head towards unfamiliar.
Theme
Relevant to
Relevant to Experiental Relevant to Textual
Interpersonal
Metafunction Metafunction
Metafunction
Topical Theme
✢ Topical theme is the first elemen in the
clause that expresses some kind of
“representational meaning”.
✢ Topical themes of clauses signal what
the text is about (the gist of the text).
✢ Topical theme realised in Transitivity
structure, as: a Pasticipant, a
Circumstance or a Process.
Example – Topical Theme