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Bowers, Frederick. 1988. Thematization in legislative language: The observations of Bentham and Coode in relation to the FG definition of Theme. In Steiner, Erich and Robert Veltman, eds. Pragmatics, discourse and text: Some systematically inspired approaches. Pinter. pp. 90–98.
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Article in book
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English
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B. discusses explicit remarks on thematization made by two British legislative draftsmen of the 19th century, Jeremy Bentham and George Coode, regarding legislative texts. This discussion is used to support the claim that an adequate description of thematization must give a great deal of weight to functional aspects.