A
seminar was held at the College of Education / University of Missan /
Department of English on the “Syntactic Study of Theme and Rheme in Dan
Brown angels and demons according to Halliday ‘s SFG”.
The study tends to analyze the structural aspect of Theme and
Rheme in linguistics texts and novels and study the strategies of Theme and
Rheme and explain its importance in the study of literary texts.
The workshop included general information to explain the idea of
the Theme and Rheme and types in the linguistic texts. The study included
clarifying the importance of the Theme and Rheme in the sequence of ideas,
sentences and coherence in the linguistic texts.
The study showed the types of Theme and Rheme :
Simple Theme, derived Theme , linear and constant ones .
Haliday’s theory includes that the language is a meaningful
system and refers to the importance of syntax in the language. This means that
there is a strong relationship between the meaning and structure advanced by
the student to clarify. The student explained that there are three ways to use
the language:
1. People use language to describe, analyze, and express our
understanding of the world, known as the “ideational meaning”
2. Use the language to link the previous article to the rest of the
sentence. Here is the relationship of the speaker to the listener and is known
as the interpersonal meaning “interpersonal meaning”
3. People use the language to arrange the text in a consistent
manner known as textual meaning “textual meaning”
The researcher added how Dan Brown used the grammatical
structures in his novel to illustrate the conflict between religion and science
This
study was submitted by a master’s student
(Noor Rahim Naama) under the supervision of (Dr.D. Iqbal Sahib),
(Dr. Fatima Al-Moussawi) in the presence of the Head of Department (Dr. Alaa
Dhafer Amer) and professors of the English language and graduate students
(Masters) In the Department of
English
