A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS FOUND IN THE SPEECH TEXT BY UK PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON

The study is concerned with the Theme Rheme, and Thematic Progression Pattern found in the speech delivered by The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson. The study aims to analyze the type of Theme Rheme and type of Thematic Progression Patterns found in the speech text. The study used a qualitative method with a descriptive design to analyze the data. The data source is take from the speech text by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The data analyzed adopted the theory by Halliday (1994,2004) to investigate the Theme and Rheme and the idea by Paltridge (2006) to explore the Thematic Progression Pattern. The study concludes that Circumstantial Adjunct as Topical Theme is the most dominant in the Theme and Rheme. The Thematic Progression Patterns found that the Reiterated/Constant Theme Pattern is the most prevalent in the Thematic Progression Pattern.