Luận văn A study on the syntactic features of english and vietnamese lyrics adopting the functional grammar approach - Clause as a message

Tóm tắt Luận văn A study on the syntactic features of english and vietnamese lyrics adopting the functional grammar approach - Clause as a message: ...ongs 9 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1. LITERATURE REVIEW ON SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a theory of language. It focuses on language function. SFL grew out of the work of JR Firth, a British linguist of the thirties, forties and fifties,... thematic structure, in which Theme is the part which expresses “what is talked about” or the “starting point” of the message (and not only subject of the logical proposition) and Rheme is the part which contains information the speaker wants to talk about the theme (and not only predicate...re and then the thematic structure in both languages has been clarified in terms of semantic, pragmatics and cultural. Similarities and differences have been shown. The findings of the study were stated and discussed in chapter 4. 5.1. SIMILARITIES Theme in English and Vietnamese shares m...