Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 28):
In a similar way, the initial clause complex of a paragraph may be seen as functioning as a kind of ‘paragraph Theme’ (the Topic Sentence of traditional accounts), while the introductory paragraph itself has a thematic status vis-a-vis the text as a whole.
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This is misleading, because it misrepresents writing pedagogy (proposals for how to write) as linguistic theory (propositions about the nature of language). Even ignoring this, such an analysis can only apply to written texts, and of these, only to those that conform with such writing instructions.
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