Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 278):
To this point, we've considered waves of information realised in ranking clauses. Martin & Rose (2007: Chapter 7) develop some of Halliday's ideas on textual meaning and periodicity by extending the analysis we've been exploring here to larger units of discourse. The Bondi Boys' rescue for example is introduced as their finest hour, in a clause which acts as a kind of topic sentence for their endeavours:
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[1] To be clear, the discussion of periodicity appears in Chapter 6 of Martin & Rose (2007). A close examination of this work can be viewed here.
[2] To be clear, Martin's 'hyper-Theme' (1992) is simply his rebranding of 'topic sentence', and as such, is writing pedagogy masquerading as linguistic theory. Analysing a written text for hyper-Themes is merely confirming the extent to which a writer has deployed this writing strategy.
Martin (1992) takes the term 'hypertheme' from Daneš (1974), where it refers to the first of repeated themes (the theme that is 'over' or 'above' later repetitions). A close examination of Martin (1992) on hyper-Theme can be viewed here.
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