An exploratory study of textual resources in some selected Thai short stories
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This paper aims to study the textual resources drawn from two Thai short stories, by using the Systemic Functional Grammar approach focusing on the system of THEME. The paper begins with characteristics of a short story and its elements and then the theoretical framework is introduced. After that, Theme choices, Theme selection and Theme range in two Thai short stories are discussed and profiled. The linguistic findings derived from this study identified unmarked topical Theme as the most common Theme selection. Additionally, Theme selection in these Thai short stories correlates with some of its elements: character, setting and points of view. In order to set the scene, marked circumstantial Themes are selected, whereas unmarked topical (ideational) Themes are selected to indicate point of view and themain character of the short story.
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