rheme
/riːm
/noun Linguistics
The part of a clause that gives information about the theme.It is structured as a series of messages consisting of what Halliday calls themes and rhemes....
- Many of the basic concepts employed in the Prague School functional analyses such as theme/rheme, topic/comment, and given/new do not seem to be clearly defined.
- The purpose of scanning a scene in this manner is to pick out details and their relations to one another (themes and rhemes).
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek rhēma 'that which is said'.