Jan 17, 2015
Yesterday I discussed with a party. The party
was very funny but they could not dance it
because she was dancing so loudly that I could not
hear the class.
Read the following lines and explain what happens with it.
A: The Phone is ringingB: I’m in the bathroomC: Ok
Can you understand the following conversation?
According to what we’ve studied so far, what’s COHERENCE for
you?The previous examples show that coherence depends on the ability of the
reader/listener to:
-Identify the relationships between the -ilo- and locutionary acts, by
- activating his-her previous knowledge about:
- The topic, the information given by the cotext and context where the text is or
was produced.
In a sentence, It’s given by the order in which its elements are
organized. Tey are:
It comes at the
beginning of the
sentence
It comes after the Theme
WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t confuse THEME and RHEME with SUBJECT and PREDICATE, since they
correspond to different levels of analysis.
THEME RHEME
SUBJECTPREDICATE
Syntactic Level.
Pragmatic Level.
THEME RHEMEThe teacher
We
A new text
This morning,
WhoGive
Please,
gave us a new text this morningwere given a new text by the teacherwas given to us by the teacher this morninga new text was given by the teachergave us a new text this morning?us a new text this morning, pleasegive us a new text
GIVEN INFORMATION
The information that has already
been mentioned or inferable from
information already mentioned in previous parts of
the text
NEWINFORMATION
Refers to the information that
has not been mentioned, or cannot been
inferred from the text or context.
Given Information
NewInformation
Theme position:At the
beginning of the clause
Rheme position
At the end of the clause
THEMATIC PATTERINGThe constant
patternIt’s when the THEME is repeated over several clauses or sentences, and it’s
coded through different cohesive devices.
T1 R1
T2 R2
T3 R3
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS PATTERN?
Urea is a very important chemical because
which is used in many industrial and
biological processes. It is excreted in the
urine as an end product of protein
metabolism. It is produced on large scale
and 0 used as a fertilizer and raw material
in the manufacture of some plastics and
drugs. It can be extracted from natural
processes or 0 artificially prepared in
laboratories.
THEMATIC PATTERINGThe linear Thematic
PatternIt’s when the THEME of every sentence is chosen from the Rheme of the
previous clause or sentence.
T1 R1
T2 R2
T3R3
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS PATTERN?
The early feminist movement was
greatly influenced by the work on
Mary Wollstonecraft. She
proposed a feminist agenda
whose aims were to expose the
exclusion of women from
traditionally “male” spheres like
politics, economics, education and
religion . These aims became a
main focus for religious women in
particular in the United States.
THEMATIC PATTERING
The complex combined pattern
It results from the combination of two or more patterns already described
TEXTTEXTURE
COHESION
A semantic Unit
The effect produced by
connections that exist
between function words
and content words in texts.
The effect caused by
cohesion
LEXICAL
COHESION
GRAMMATICA
L COHESION
FIND THE MISTAKE IN THIS READING…
Artist Pablo Cassels, lost his pants on The London
Underground last week and he has offered $200 to
the person who returns them. If you have any
information, phone 0178-334-5656
Thank Goodness I didn’t lose my
Brushes!!!
FIND THE MISTAKE IN THIS READING…
LONELY HEARTS
Small, single, intelligent woman wishes to meet
tall, attractive, non-smoking mule. Please send
photos and phone number to Box 242.
“Will you marry me?”