... choose A study on Theme-Rheme and Cohesive Ties in the short story The Last Leaf by O’Henry as the title of my MA Thesis, using Halliday’s functional grammar as a theoretical framework 1.2 Aims ... to create meaning Using the short story The Last Leaf as a basis, the textual aspect of meaning through cohesion will be analyzed As regards practical purposes, understanding the theme-rheme ... Functional Linguistics.Wellington: Continuum Wellington House Halliday, M .A. K (1994) An Introduction to Functional Grammar Second Edition, London: Edward Arnold Halliday, M .A. K & Hasan, R (1985) Language,...