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Thematic progression (TP) is examined in the text of a communication between a cardiologist and a general practitioner concerning a patient, offering a clinical diagnosis of the patient's condition. Analysis of the discourse looks at the field, tenor, and mode of the communication as a context for TP. The methods of analysis are first described, and the TP is then mapped. What constitutes theme in the clauses of the text is noted, and how words and nominal groups form TP is discussed. Considerations such as genre (a class of communicative events in which members share communicative purpose) and frames (inferences made from a body of knowledge in order to understand an utterance) are explored. After a discussion of TP and some of its shortcomings in application to the text in question, the analysis concludes with suggestions for making TP more explicit in the teaching of English for Special Purposes. (Contains 19 references.) (MSE)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert