英语主位结构及其对篇章教学的启示

English Thematic Structure and Its Implications on Discourse Teaching

对篇章进行功能分析,有助于更全面、更准确地理解原文,同时也可以通过实践应用加深对篇章的认识。在教学中,英语主位推进与信息分布规律对英语篇章教学有深远的意义。

The author mainly differs theme from subject and topic by nailing down what is known information and what is unknown information. This article takes a text as an example and puts the emphasis on topic analysis of experimental themetheme analysis. We can understand the text more complete and accurate, and simultaneously can further the understanding of the whole text by putting it into use. The writer aims at arguing the significance of theme - theme progression and the distribution of known ＆ unknown information in discourse teaching.