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This research is aimed to describe theme and rheme constructions in the headlines of daily newspapers that has been published in Egypt between the period of August 2011 until November 2011. It was the period before Egyptian doing their first parlement elections after the offensive of Hosni Mubarak’regime and tyranny. The objectives of study are Al-Ahram Daily Newspaper that had been published in Egypt since 1875. This work finds the grammatical units that applied in the headlines of Al-Ahram Daily Newspaper. Then, the majority of patterns were analyzed based on the information focus constructions, they are theme and rheme. At the end, theme of headlines will be analyzed based on the thematic progession patterns. The result of data analysis shows that the nominal sentence (jumlah ismiyyah) is the most dominant pattern in the headlines of Egyptian Newspapers. And the result of theme and rheme construction in the headlines shows that the function of theme in headlines is placed by the musnad ilaih constituen, but the function of rheme is placed initially by the musnad constituen. Finally, the thematic progession patterns can be found in the texts of Egyptian Newspapers, those patterns such as (1) the constant theme pattern, (2) the linear theme pattern, (3) the split rheme pattern, and (4) derived themes.  

Keywords: headlines, theme-rheme constructions, thematic progession patterns

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