inter clausal elements are organized to form a unified whole text that makes meanings. In this, the textual function indicates the way the text is organized or
structured. The textual function of language clause in its function as a message is realized by the theme system of language clause. The theme system of the clause is
represented by the thematic structure of the clause, which comprises two major elements: 1 theme, and 2 rheme, Halliday inSinar 2003: 80.
2.3.3.1 Theme
At the clause level, the theme is realized as the departure point of the clause for the message, Halliday in Sinar 2003: 81:
“
The Theme is one element in a particular structural configuration which, taken as a whole, organizes the clause as a message; this is the
configuration of Theme and Rheme. A message consists of a Theme combined with a Rheme. Within that configuration, the Theme is the
starting - point for the message; it is the ground from which the clause is taking off
”. According to Halliday in Sinar 2003: 82 the rheme is look at morphology
and morphophonemic, which is part the message to which the theme is developed. In an analysis of a thematic structure of a text, it is possible to examine
language in terms of Halliday’s three metafunctions: the textual, the interpersonal, and the ideational. The theme choices in the language may be of three kinds: 1
textual, 2 interpersonal and 3 topical. The topical theme creates the topic that the speaker chooses to make the point of departure of the message. The interpersonal
theme, Eggins in Sinar 2003: 82 occurs at the beginning of a clause when a
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constituent is assigned a Mood label the unfused Finite, Modal adjuncts: Mood, Polarity, Vocative and Comment. The textual theme give thematic prominence to
textual elements and has the function of linking one clause or clause element to another clause or clause element, whereby all clauses or clause elements are related to
each other as such that they form a unified whole text within contexts. For the ideational topical, interpersonal and textual themes related to the grammatical
functions and classes and their realizations in clauses, Matthiessen in Sinar 2003: 83.
For example: Right, Students,
today we learn
vocabulary Textual
Interpersonal Topical
_ T H E M E
R H E M E
2.3.3.2 Cohesion
Cohesion refers to the resources within language that provide continuity in a text, over and above that provided by clause structure and clause complexes. Hence,
cohesive relations are non-structural relations which work to help a text hang together. We shall be looking at three of these kinds of relationship in this chapter:
reference, lexical cohesion, and conjunction Gerot 1994: 170.
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2.3.4 Review of Related Literature
