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Publication details [#3850]

Goodenough-Trepagnier, Cheryl and Frank Smith. 1977. Thematization and intonation in the organization of sentences. Language and Speech 20 (2) : 99–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intonation | reading | thematic continuity | theme1 | topic

Person as a subject

Halliday, M.A.K.

Journal WWW

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Annotation

An empirical investigation leads to the conclusion that subjects prefer topic-maintaining sentences in discourse and that the intonation with which they read sentences is independent of whether they are topic-maintaining or not. These results are discussed with reference to Halliday's theory of theme.