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Thomas, Sarah; Hawes, Thomas – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Examines syntactic choices available to journal article writers for making reporting statements and the conditions governing such choices. The article investigates the way in which the choice of theme affects the syntactic form of the reports. The resulting syntactic forms are shown to be associated with the function of reports in their contexts.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)