Abstract
This paper focuses on the adequacy of Multiple Themes, as described in Halliday (1985), to spoken English. Halliday's theory is contrasted with the results of some experiments in the psycholinguistic domain which prove the importance of hesitations in the organisation of the message. Based upon real data, the article argues the need to improve and expand the original description of these elements in order to account satisfactorily for the problems that spoken data pose for this kind of analysis.
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