Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study

Name: Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case StudyAuthor(s): James Dickins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367367503, 978-0367367503\nSynopsis\nThematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study presents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an alternative to the traditional notions of theme and rheme.\n\nTaking Arabic as a case study, this book claims that approaches to thematic structure propounded in universalist linguistic theories, of which Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics is taken as an illustrative example, are profoundly wrong. It argues that in order to produce an analysis of thematic structure and similar phenomena which is not undermined by its own theoretical presuppositions, it is necessary to remove such notions from the domain of linguistic and semiotic theory. The book initially focuses on Sudanese Arabic, because this allows for a beautifully clear exposition of ge.