Signalling the organisation of written texts: hyper-themes in management and history essays

Louise J. Ravelli

Signalling the organisation of written texts: hyper-themes in management and history essays

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Louise J. Ravelli Universidade de New South Wales

Keywords:

hyper-Themes, referring expressions, EAP, lexicogrammatical patterns.

Abstract

In this paper, I will examine how the fundamental processes of technicalising and rationalising are inflected in the higherlevel structuring of written texts, via hyper-Themes. Through an examination of First year University essays in Management and History, the role of hyper-Themes in the development of basic argumentative frameworks will be identified. It will be seen that hyper-Themes have a dual function, establishing retrospective and prospective connections to the argumentative framework, and that they have distinctive lexicogrammatical and colligational patterns, according to the discipline.

Original in English.

Author Biography

Louise J. Ravelli, Universidade de New South Wales

PhD em Linguagem e Comunicação pela universidade de Birmingham, Inglaterra, e atua como Professora Associada da School of English, Media and Performing Arts, da universidade de New South Wales em Sydney, Austrália. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem a metáfora gramatical, aspectos da comunicação visual e temáticas na interface linguagem-comunicação-semiótica e Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional.

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2011-06-19

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Ravelli, L. J. (2011). Signalling the organisation of written texts: hyper-themes in management and history essays. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 18(28). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/26076

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Vol. 18 No. 28 (2011): Lexicon

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Linguistic Papers

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