Publications

Publication details [#2624]

Deyes, Anthony F. 1978. Towards a linguistic definition of functional varieties of written English. IRAL 16 (4) : 313–329.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative dynamism | language variety | literacy | text | theme1 vs. rheme

Language as a subject

English

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

The notions of 'theme', 'rheme' and 'communicative dynamism' are used to arrive at a definition of textuality and a description of functional differences between texts.