THEMATIC STRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC CONTRACTS IN VIETNAMESE FROM THE SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR PERSPECTIVE
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This article refers to the thematic structure of economic contracts in Vietnamese based on the systemic functional grammar theory related to Theme and Rheme. The article focuses on theme categories and their distributions in economic contracts in Vietnamese, including topic, interpersonal and textual themes; single and multiple themes; marked and unmarked themes. The purpose of the article is to explore the salient features of thematic structures in economic contracts, a genre of legal texts. The research results show that the topic theme is the most dominant, followed by the textual theme, There is no interpersonal theme. The research results also show that single and unmarked themes are the main ones in the analyzed corpus.
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economic contracts, legal language, thematic structure, systematic functional grammar
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