Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the Englis...Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the English writings of college students,the lack of structural cohesion and semantic coherence is common.The theme-rheme theory is about discourse cohesion.Proper use of themes and thematic progession patterns qualifies cohesion and clear thoughts of a discourse and the variety of sentence patterns.Therefore,the theme-rheme theory plays an important role in writing teaching.展开更多
Theme-rheme pattern model is the principle base for analyzing English advertisement discourse.We find the discourse of English advertisements,by analysis,in such ways of developing as parallel model,continuous model,a...Theme-rheme pattern model is the principle base for analyzing English advertisement discourse.We find the discourse of English advertisements,by analysis,in such ways of developing as parallel model,continuous model,alternative model and concentrated model,has reflected the ad owner's expectation to change the law of audiences' cognition.This kind of law and the advertising function is closely connected with the same purpose,which contributes to affect potential consumers.展开更多
Theme-rherae theory plays an important role in the formation of the text.Chinese and English have much in common in their sentence configuration and information arrangement although they belong to different language f...Theme-rherae theory plays an important role in the formation of the text.Chinese and English have much in common in their sentence configuration and information arrangement although they belong to different language family.This paper intends to probe into the instructive significance of the theory on C-E and E-C translation through the analysis of theme translation and thematic progression.展开更多
As a special type of writing,news report has attracted more and more attention in different countries.Many people have developed an interest in reading English news,which provides them with timely information about im...As a special type of writing,news report has attracted more and more attention in different countries.Many people have developed an interest in reading English news,which provides them with timely information about important happenings around the world.Under the frame work of Systemic-Functional Grammar,based on English news headlines,the theme-rheme structure of English headlines is systemically analyzed in this thesis.Some detailed researches are made to investigate the influence of the Theme-rheme Structure in English news headlines.Then the news headline as well as its contents could be understood and enjoyed while reading newspaper.展开更多
As a functional style,sports news English has aroused attention and concern of the stylists. This thesis chooses the report of 2011 Winbledon Games by New York Times and The Sun. This paper analyzes the style characte...As a functional style,sports news English has aroused attention and concern of the stylists. This thesis chooses the report of 2011 Winbledon Games by New York Times and The Sun. This paper analyzes the style characteristics of theme Rheme system from the aspect of text function,with the purpose of helping people to know more about the writing techniques of English Newspapers.展开更多
For language users,meaning is the central fact about language,and meaning emerges from a seamless union of wording and context.Functional Grammar attempts to face that uncomfortable fact head-on and to establish a uni...For language users,meaning is the central fact about language,and meaning emerges from a seamless union of wording and context.Functional Grammar attempts to face that uncomfortable fact head-on and to establish a unified model of language which in principle allows the links to be made within the same description.展开更多
文摘Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the English writings of college students,the lack of structural cohesion and semantic coherence is common.The theme-rheme theory is about discourse cohesion.Proper use of themes and thematic progession patterns qualifies cohesion and clear thoughts of a discourse and the variety of sentence patterns.Therefore,the theme-rheme theory plays an important role in writing teaching.
文摘Theme-rheme pattern model is the principle base for analyzing English advertisement discourse.We find the discourse of English advertisements,by analysis,in such ways of developing as parallel model,continuous model,alternative model and concentrated model,has reflected the ad owner's expectation to change the law of audiences' cognition.This kind of law and the advertising function is closely connected with the same purpose,which contributes to affect potential consumers.
文摘Theme-rherae theory plays an important role in the formation of the text.Chinese and English have much in common in their sentence configuration and information arrangement although they belong to different language family.This paper intends to probe into the instructive significance of the theory on C-E and E-C translation through the analysis of theme translation and thematic progression.
文摘As a special type of writing,news report has attracted more and more attention in different countries.Many people have developed an interest in reading English news,which provides them with timely information about important happenings around the world.Under the frame work of Systemic-Functional Grammar,based on English news headlines,the theme-rheme structure of English headlines is systemically analyzed in this thesis.Some detailed researches are made to investigate the influence of the Theme-rheme Structure in English news headlines.Then the news headline as well as its contents could be understood and enjoyed while reading newspaper.
文摘As a functional style,sports news English has aroused attention and concern of the stylists. This thesis chooses the report of 2011 Winbledon Games by New York Times and The Sun. This paper analyzes the style characteristics of theme Rheme system from the aspect of text function,with the purpose of helping people to know more about the writing techniques of English Newspapers.
文摘For language users,meaning is the central fact about language,and meaning emerges from a seamless union of wording and context.Functional Grammar attempts to face that uncomfortable fact head-on and to establish a unified model of language which in principle allows the links to be made within the same description.
