Tema e n-rema: a construção do fluxo de informação em textos narrativos sob uma perspectiva sistêmico-funcional

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Olioni, Raymundo da Costa
• Orientador(a): Menuzzi, Sergio de Moura
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA; LINGUÍSTICA PORTUGUESA; LINGUÍSTICA DO TEXTO; GRAMÁTICA; ANÁLISE LINGUÍSTICA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4282

This study is grounded in M. A. K. Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), focusing on the functions of Theme and New Information. These two functions belong, respectively, to the Thematic structure and to the Information structure in the textual metafuncation, the latter being one of the levels of linguistic analysis in SFG. By following Halliday’s (1985, 1994, 2004) conceptualization of Functional Theme, Daneš’ studies on “Thematic Progression” (1974) and Fries’ (1981; 1983; 1994; 1995; 1997; 2002; 2009) investigations on the method of development of the text and on the N-Rheme, we analysed narrative texts in Portuguese in order to verify the construction of each text as a whole. We observed the flow of information, that is, how the New Information in the clause relates to its local context – the Theme – and the movement from the point of departure of the clause to its end, in which the reader may find the information which is presented as New, the focus of attention, in structures in canonical order. We move on and show that, being highly predictable, the unmarked themes of each clause which occur in this type of production indicate the writer’s point of view on the subject of the text; besides, the N-Rhemes of the clause, being highly informative, correspond to the most meaningful information to the reader. This considered, the Themes and N-Rhemes of the clause make up the main structure of the text, by characterizing a schema which contains the writer’s point of view as well as the most informative ideas to be captured by the reader. This allows for the construction of a text summary, that is, a synthesis of the original text.