Rheme

Word RHEME
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɹiːm/

Definitions and meanings of "Rheme"

What do we mean by rheme?

See the extract. noun

The part of a sentence that provides further information regarding the topic. noun

The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

A sign that represents its object in respect of quality and so, in its signified interpretant, is represented as a character or mark; sumisign.

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The word "rheme" in example sentences

I think he sees focus as a synonym of topic (rheme?), and not as a synonym of what you have to say about it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Again: rheme (by which Peirce meant a relation of arbitrary adicity or arity) was a first, proposition was a second, and argument was a third. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Independent of syntactic word order, theme-rheme or topic-comment sentence structure has the potential to affect the presentation of semantic elements in most languages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A technical explanation of two syntactic phenomena: word order and topic-prominent languages' systematic tools for effecting theme-rheme structures. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle -wa to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Further, just as we can think of a rheme as an unsaturated predicate, and a dicent as a proposition, we can think of the delome as an argument or rule of inference. ❋ Atkin, Albert (2006)

And finally, since that sign will also determine an interpretant it can be classified as either a rheme, a dicent, or a delome. ❋ Atkin, Albert (2006)

Whenever we understand a sign in terms of qualities it suggests its object may have, we generate an interpretant that qualifies its sign as a rheme. ❋ Atkin, Albert (2006)

To reward the saint for the information, they tear a rag off the shirt and hang it on the briers near by; "where," says the writer, "I have seen such numbers as might have made a fayre rheme in a paper-myll." ❋ George Barton Cutten (N/A)

Much I have written, and it comes to this: The very oddity of object-first syntax in universal human grammar, plus the absence of systematic theme-rheme tools in standard English which, unlike its east Asian variants and the local languages that influence them, is not a topic-prominent language, plus the availability of stylistic variant orders in English that throw entire phrases to the front of sentences for rhetorical effect — all this makes syntactic inversion a striking and powerful poetic device in English. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But my profound understanding of sentence structure, theme-rheme analysis and other God-only-knows theories just can’t make my starters use – s in the third person singular or my intermediate students stop using ‘will’ after ‘if’ in 1st conditionals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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