A Brief Comment on "Theme, Topic or Discourse Framework?"

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  • Raquel Angela Hidalgo Downing Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.199811022

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CHAFE, Wallace. 1976. “Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics and Points of View.” In Subject and Topic. Ed. Charles Li. New York: Academic Press. 25-55.

DOWNING, Angela. 1990a.a “On Topical Theme in English.” Paper read at the Seventeenth International Systemic-Functional Congress, Stirling.

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--. 1991. “An Alternative Approach to Theme: A Systemic-Functional Perspective.” Word 42.2:119-144.

--. 1995. “Thematic Layering and Focus Assignment in Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” In Thematic Development in English Texts. Ed. Mohsen Ghadessy. London: Pinter. 147-163.

DOWNING, Angela, and Philip LOCKE. 1992. A University Course in English Grammar. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall International.

GÓMEZ GONZALEZ, María A. 1996. “Theme: Topic or Discourse Framework?” Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies 17: 123-140.

HALLIDAY, M. A. K. 1994. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. 1985. London: Arnold.

LOWE, Ivan. 1987. “Sentence Initial Elements in English and Their Discourse Function.” Occasional Papers in Systemic Linguistics 2: 5-34.

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1998-12-31

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Raquel Angela Hidalgo Downing. (1998). A Brief Comment on "Theme, Topic or Discourse Framework?". Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 19, 205–208. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.199811022

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ARTICLES: Language and linguistics