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What is a rheme?

What is a rheme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
  2. (Peircean) A sign that represents its object in respect of quality and so, in its signified interpretant, is represented as a character or mark; sumisign.
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But other devices may also be used to distinguish theme and rheme.
Whenever we understand a sign in terms of qualities it suggests its object may have, we generate an interpretant that qualifies its sign as a rheme.
A dragon metaphor is used on occasion as an image on the screen during lecture to remind students of this rheme in statistics.
Over time the term enunciation gave way to rheme, and rheme to comment.

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