Publications

Publication details [#13681]

Firbas, Jan. 1995. On the Thematic and the Rhematic Layers of a Text. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 59–72.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

functional sentence perspective | text analysis | theme1 vs. rheme

Language as a subject

Czech | English | French | German | Slovak

Annotation

The author discusses thematic and non-thematic layers of a text that result from the interplay of factors determining the functional perspective of each sentence of the text. The texts used for analysis are versions of Luke 2:8-14 and Dr. Zhivago in English, French, German, Czech and Slovak.