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Category: Disambiguation A relative term, also called a rhema or a rheme, is a logical term that requires reference to any number of other objects, called the correlates of the term, in order to denote a definite object, called the relate (pronounced with the accent on the first syllable) of the relative... In linguistics, the topic (or theme) is the thing being predicated (talked about), and the comment (or rheme) is the thing being said about the topic. ...

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Thematic Progression as a Functional Resource in Analysing Texts (5224 words)
	This concentration on either Theme or Rheme or Rheme, rather than the relationship between the two over stretches of text perhaps derives from Halliday's early statement that 'thematization is independent of what has gone before' (1967:17), and which is challenged by Danes (1974:109).
	Firbas points out that it is (typically) the Rheme that represents the core of the utterance (the message proper) and 'pushes the communication forward'; however, from the point of view of text organisation it is the Theme that plays an important constructing role.
	The Rhemes in (2) and (3) appear to have the purpose of introducing something of the island's history.

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