FSP and the essence of a text

Leona Rohrauer

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ABSTRACT (en)

The present paper presents the results of a small-scale research aiming at the exploration of the potential of FSP for a text content description. The research task here was to look at how the carriers of the theme and the rheme capture the essence of a text, or in other words, how much they “tell” what the text is about. The results of the FSP analysis were compared to the text content description achieved by the use keywords. The initial hypothesis that a set of theme and rheme carriers captures the content of a text more precisely than a set of keywords was confirmed.

KEYWORDS (en)

FSP, text content description, keyword, thematic track

DOI

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059635.2019.2.6

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