On narrow P-theme paragraph in fi ction, journalistic and academic texts

Vol.2,No.1(2009)

Abstract
The paper deals with the thematic organization in paragraphs. It elaborates on the paragraph typology pioneered by Mathesius (1942) and Daneš (1994, 1995), and draws a distinction between two paragraph supratypes, viz. the narrow P-theme paragraphs and their broad P-theme counterparts. Focussing on the former, the study explores their register-specifi c tendencies detected in a corpus of authentic British English texts.

Keywords:
paragraph; narrow P-theme paragraph; broad P-theme paragraph; thematic build-up; register; corpus; subcorpus; central; non-central; stable P-theme paragraph; unfolded P-theme paragraph
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