This article focuses on the discussion of Chinese topics and English marked theme. It will be divided into four parts. Part I is introduction part. It introduces the concepts of Chinese topic and English marked theme....This article focuses on the discussion of Chinese topics and English marked theme. It will be divided into four parts. Part I is introduction part. It introduces the concepts of Chinese topic and English marked theme. Part II tells different types of Chinese topics and English marked themes. Part III discusses the functions of Chinese topics and English themes. Part IV is the conclusion part.展开更多
The essay first reviews the grammatical cases in English and Chinese,and focus on the nominative case in Chinese.Then it studies Chinese language as Topic-construction.On the basis of the above research,the essay stud...The essay first reviews the grammatical cases in English and Chinese,and focus on the nominative case in Chinese.Then it studies Chinese language as Topic-construction.On the basis of the above research,the essay studies the nominative case assigned to Topic-marked NPs in Modern Chinese according to Jie Xu's theory.展开更多
It, from the perspective of cohesion, extracts three types of topic-shift markers used in this genre, namely 'change of narrators', 'change of objects being talked about', and 'temporal adverbials&...It, from the perspective of cohesion, extracts three types of topic-shift markers used in this genre, namely 'change of narrators', 'change of objects being talked about', and 'temporal adverbials' to analyze four journalistic reports from the network media and draws the conclusion that cohesion between two topic units is usually weaker than that within a specific topic fragment.展开更多
文摘This article focuses on the discussion of Chinese topics and English marked theme. It will be divided into four parts. Part I is introduction part. It introduces the concepts of Chinese topic and English marked theme. Part II tells different types of Chinese topics and English marked themes. Part III discusses the functions of Chinese topics and English themes. Part IV is the conclusion part.
文摘The essay first reviews the grammatical cases in English and Chinese,and focus on the nominative case in Chinese.Then it studies Chinese language as Topic-construction.On the basis of the above research,the essay studies the nominative case assigned to Topic-marked NPs in Modern Chinese according to Jie Xu's theory.
文摘It, from the perspective of cohesion, extracts three types of topic-shift markers used in this genre, namely 'change of narrators', 'change of objects being talked about', and 'temporal adverbials' to analyze four journalistic reports from the network media and draws the conclusion that cohesion between two topic units is usually weaker than that within a specific topic fragment.
