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Chapter 12 12.1.3 Function Sentence Perspective 1. Theme Rheme 2. Function Sentence Perspective (FSP) 3. Communicative Dynamism (CD) Theme Rheme A sentence contains Theme Rheme Theme: — the known information to the reader or hearer. Rheme: — information that is new to the reader or hearer. Theme Rheme It is believed that movement from the Theme to the Rheme reveals the movement of the mind itself. Language may use different syntactic structures, but the order of ideas remains basically the same. Example Sally stands on the table. Subject Predicate Theme Rheme On the table stands Sally. Predicate Subject Theme Rheme Function Sentence Perspective Definition Function Sentence Perspective( (FSP) is a theory of linguistic analysis which refers to an analysis of utterances (or texts) in terms of the information they contain. Principle The role of each utterance part is evaluated for its semantic contribution to the whole. Note: FSP deals particularly with the effect of the distribution of known (or given) information and new information in discourse. Communicative Dynamism (CD) Jan Firbas developed the notion of communicative dynamism, based on the fact that linguistic communication is not a static phenomenon, but a dynamic one. Definition CD is means to measure the amount of information an element carries in a sentence. Degree of CD The degree of CD is the effect contributed by a linguistic element, for it pushes the communication forward. Example: He was cross. Note: All element-sentence, phrase,word, morpheme-may be singled out in order to establish a sharp contrast. Degree of CD 1.Normally the subject carries a lower degree of CD than the finite verb and/or the object and/or adverbial, provided that either the verb or th