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ENG223 Discourse Analysis

6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment
54 7.0 References/Further Reading
Unit 3: The Birmingham School Approach Contents

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Summary

In this Unit, we have looked at Thematic Progression. It is a followup to the last unit, where we looked at the Information and Theme distribution in texts. We observed that it is important to know how themes progress in larger texts. The progression of themes has implications for meaning. As we have observed, in some texts, the same theme dominates the clauses, while in others, the themes are varied. An instance is the Derived Theme pattern, where other themes are derived from a hypertheme. The rheme can also be split in such away that they will lead to the formulation of subsequent themes in the text, as we saw in the Spilt Rheme pattern.
6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment

(i) Using Chapter One of Things Fall Apart by Chuinua Achebe, identify and describe the thematic progression pattern in the chapter. ii) Pick an editorial in any Nigerian newspaper and identify and discuss the thematic progression patterns in it. iii) Compare the TP patterns in Things Fall Apart and the Editorial you selected.

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7.0 References/Further Reading Danes, F. (1974) Functional Sentence Perspective and the organization of Texts In Danes, F. (Ed) Papers in FSP (106-128. The Hague Mouton.
Bloor, T. and Bloor, M. (1995) The Functional Analysis of English, A
Hallidayan Approach. London Arnold.

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Unit 3: The Birmingham School Approach
Contents

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Unit Objectives
3.0 Main Content
3.1 Classroom discourse
3.2 Discourse Structure
3.2.1 Lesson
3.2.2 Transaction
3.2.3 Exchange
3.2.4 Move
3.2.5 Classes of Acts
4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Summary
6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment
7.0 References/Further Reading

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