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'''Theme and rheme''' are terms used widely by 20th century European structuralists for [[topic]] and [[focus]].

===Origin===
The term pair was made widely known by the work of [[Vilém Mathesius]] and others in the [[Prague School]], in the first systematic attempt of studying [[information structure]] (called [[functional sentence perspective]] in the Prague School).

However, it was not coined by Mathesius, but by [[Hermann Ammann]]. The term pair ''theme and rheme'' first appears in Ammann (1928:3), where the author points out that this terminology was foreshadowed in Ammann (1911/1912).

===References===
*Ammann, Hermann. 1911/1912. Die Stellungstypen des lateinischen attributiven Adjectivums und ihre Bedeutung für die Psychologie der Wortstellung auf Grund von Ciceros Briefen an Atticus untersucht. ''Indogrmanische Forschungen'' 19:1-122.
*Ammann, Hermann. 1928. Die menschliche Rede: sprachphilosophische Untersuchungen. Teil 2: Der Satz. Lahr i.B.: Schauenburg.

===Other languages===
German [[Thema und Rhema]] French [[thème et rhème]]

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	However, it was not coined by Mathesius, but by [[Hermann Ammann]]. The term pair ''theme and rheme'' first appears in Ammann (1928:3), where the author points out that this terminology was foreshadowed in Ammann (1911/1912).		However, it was not coined by Mathesius, but by [[Hermann Ammann]]. The term pair ''theme and rheme'' first appears in Ammann (1928:3), where the author points out that this terminology was foreshadowed in Ammann (1911/1912).
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		+	At the time, the best-known term pair for topic and focus was [[psychological subject and psychological predicate]].

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 ===References===
-*Ammann, Hermann. 1911/1912. Die Stellungstypen des lateinischen attributiven Adjectivums und ihre Bedeutung für die Psychologie der Wortstellung auf Grund von Ciceros Briefen an Atticus untersucht. ''Indogrmanische Forschungen'' 19:1-122.
+*Ammann, Hermann. 1911/1912. Die Stellungstypen des lateinischen attributiven Adjectivums und ihre Bedeutung für die Psychologie der Wortstellung auf Grund von Ciceros Briefen an Atticus untersucht. ''Indogermanische Forschungen'' 19:1-122.
 *Ammann, Hermann. 1928. Die menschliche Rede: sprachphilosophische Untersuchungen. Teil 2: Der Satz. Lahr i.B.: Schauenburg.

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 ===Other languages===
-German [[Thema und Rhema]] French [[thème et rhème]]
+German [[Thema und Rhema]] <br>
 {{dc}}
 [[Category:Discourse]]