'...And Yes, I was in the Building' (9-11-2001): Thematic Selections in Personal Recounts of a Tragedy

'...And Yes, I was in the Building' (9-11-2001): Thematic Selections in Personal Recounts of a Tragedy

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday's (1994) notion of theme is applied in the analysis of four recounts of personal experience with the events of September 11, 2001. After quoting Halliday's definition of the theme as an element of clause structure, quantitative data are tabulated for var...

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