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Correlation of Theme-Rheme Structure with Dictum and Modus in English and Ukrainian Television Discourse

Savchenko Ye. Yu.pdf


Key words: theme, rheme, dictum, modus.


The article is devoted to the problem of correlation of a semantic structure of a sentence reflecting the content structure of a situation and is represented by dictum and modus in a sentence with the communicative structure represented by logical sense, expressed by the theme and rheme, as well as the means of their implementation in speech as one of the important aspects of the theme-rheme structure of an utterance in the communication process. Considerable attention is paid to prosodic means in English and Ukrainian speech.