This essay will discuss a system which is the realisation of the textual metafunction of language, it is called theme system. This system is used to see the coherent and cohesion of a text. Under the theme system, there are five aspects will be explored in this essay. These are the definition of theme, the types theme, longer unit system, higher level theme and the theme progression.
First it is about the definition of the theme. The theme is the element that serves as the point of departure of the message while the remainder of the clause, the part in which the theme is developed is called rheme (Halliday, 2014). Theme and rheme are two main constituents in theme system. In general, the theme is come first and rheme is at the end of the clause. According to Halliday and Matthiessen (2004: 64), theme is the element which serves as 'the starting-point for the message: it is what the clause is going to be about'. Additionally, Gerot&Wignell (1994) said that theme represents 'this is what I'm saying about' and rheme is 'this is what I'm saying about. The theme typically contains familiar, or 'given', information, for instance information which has already been mentioned somewhere in the text or is familiar from the context (Eggins:2004). For example:
I live in Jakarta
Theme Rheme
Second the types of theme. The theme can be divided into three types these are ideational, interpersonal and textual. Firstly is ideational or topical theme. The topical theme is the first element in the clause that expresses some kind of "representational meaning" (Martin, Matthiessen&Painter, 1997:24 in Emilia,2014). It is realised in transitivity. According to Gerot&Wignell (1994) there are two types of topical theme, these are unmarked and marked. ...
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