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
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
This essay aims to find out how information is organized in a given text based on analysis of clause complexes and theme and rheme structure in terms of experiential,interpersonal and textual themes.
News,as an important way of communication is playing a crucial role in the comprehensive development of our country ranging from fast economic expansion,giant leap in science and technology,and progress in every aspec...News,as an important way of communication is playing a crucial role in the comprehensive development of our country ranging from fast economic expansion,giant leap in science and technology,and progress in every aspects of social life.There is no doubt that News translation,in its specific and special way serves as an effective tool in spreading all sorts of information to a larger base of readers as rapid as possible.The function of the News is the transmission of information covering great events happening both at home and abroad in a timely and accurate manner.The information structure and the main ThemeRheme structure functions belong to the language of discourse.As we know,English pays emphasis on hypotactic relations while Chinese pay more attention to paratactic relations.What is more,English is the subject-predominant language with subject-predicate pattern easy to identify while Chinese is the topic-predominant language with topic-comment patterns as its prototype.The paper selects a large number of news items covering a wide range of subjects from CCTV news channel website and the Xinhua net as the paper’s corpus,Through the comparative study of both English and Chinese at the level of sentence then to text,the paper is trying to analyze the similarities and dissimilarities of source language and target language in their conversion process.Meanwhile,this paper draws a new conclusion that Theme-Rheme structures help us find the semantic connections between source language and target language.The novel point is that this is a two-way communication,namely,not only is the target language in accordance with source language,but also the source language conforms to the habitual usage of target language,realizing the stylistic equivalence between two texts.In a sense,the study of Theme-Rheme structure provides a great boost to the News Translation.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
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
News,as an important way of communication is playing a crucial role in the comprehensive development of our country ranging from fast economic expansion,giant leap in science and technology,and progress in every aspec...News,as an important way of communication is playing a crucial role in the comprehensive development of our country ranging from fast economic expansion,giant leap in science and technology,and progress in every aspects of social life.There is no doubt that News translation,in its specific and special way serves as an effective tool in spreading all sorts of information to a larger base of readers as rapid as possible.The function of the News is the transmission of information covering great events happening both at home and abroad in a timely and accurate manner.The information structure and the main ThemeRheme structure functions belong to the language of discourse.As we know,English pays emphasis on hypotactic relations while Chinese pay more attention to paratactic relations.What is more,English is the subject-predominant language with subject-predicate pattern easy to identify while Chinese is the topic-predominant language with topic-comment patterns as its prototype.The paper selects a large number of news items covering a wide range of subjects from CCTV news channel website and the Xinhua net as the paper’s corpus,Through the comparative study of both English and Chinese at the level of sentence then to text,the paper is trying to analyze the similarities and dissimilarities of source language and target language in their conversion process.Meanwhile,this paper draws a new conclusion that Theme-Rheme structures help us find the semantic connections between source language and target language.The novel point is that this is a two-way communication,namely,not only is the target language in accordance with source language,but also the source language conforms to the habitual usage of target language,realizing the stylistic equivalence between two texts.In a sense,the study of Theme-Rheme structure provides a great boost to the News Translation.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
On March 12th, on the third anniversary of the start of green fi-ber logo certification, China Chemical Fibers Association held the first "Green Life, Green Fibers-Green Fibers Theme Fashion Show" to fur-the...On March 12th, on the third anniversary of the start of green fi-ber logo certification, China Chemical Fibers Association held the first "Green Life, Green Fibers-Green Fibers Theme Fashion Show" to fur-ther strengthen the promotion of green fibers logo certification, further integrate the scientific and technological achievements of green develop- ment with industrial channels, and promote the green process of chemical fibers industry.展开更多
Thematic structure and information structure are two important closely-related systems in textual function. By analyzing the thematic structure of a popular on-line English poem, this paper attempts to reveal how them...Thematic structure and information structure are two important closely-related systems in textual function. By analyzing the thematic structure of a popular on-line English poem, this paper attempts to reveal how theme and rheme is arranged to carry new information forward to achieve its textual function.展开更多
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This essay aims to find out how information is organized in a given text based on analysis of clause complexes and theme and rheme structure in terms of experiential,interpersonal and textual themes.
文摘News,as an important way of communication is playing a crucial role in the comprehensive development of our country ranging from fast economic expansion,giant leap in science and technology,and progress in every aspects of social life.There is no doubt that News translation,in its specific and special way serves as an effective tool in spreading all sorts of information to a larger base of readers as rapid as possible.The function of the News is the transmission of information covering great events happening both at home and abroad in a timely and accurate manner.The information structure and the main ThemeRheme structure functions belong to the language of discourse.As we know,English pays emphasis on hypotactic relations while Chinese pay more attention to paratactic relations.What is more,English is the subject-predominant language with subject-predicate pattern easy to identify while Chinese is the topic-predominant language with topic-comment patterns as its prototype.The paper selects a large number of news items covering a wide range of subjects from CCTV news channel website and the Xinhua net as the paper’s corpus,Through the comparative study of both English and Chinese at the level of sentence then to text,the paper is trying to analyze the similarities and dissimilarities of source language and target language in their conversion process.Meanwhile,this paper draws a new conclusion that Theme-Rheme structures help us find the semantic connections between source language and target language.The novel point is that this is a two-way communication,namely,not only is the target language in accordance with source language,but also the source language conforms to the habitual usage of target language,realizing the stylistic equivalence between two texts.In a sense,the study of Theme-Rheme structure provides a great boost to the News Translation.
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News,as an important way of communication is playing a crucial role in the comprehensive development of our country ranging from fast economic expansion,giant leap in science and technology,and progress in every aspects of social life.There is no doubt that News translation,in its specific and special way serves as an effective tool in spreading all sorts of information to a larger base of readers as rapid as possible.The function of the News is the transmission of information covering great events happening both at home and abroad in a timely and accurate manner.The information structure and the main ThemeRheme structure functions belong to the language of discourse.As we know,English pays emphasis on hypotactic relations while Chinese pay more attention to paratactic relations.What is more,English is the subject-predominant language with subject-predicate pattern easy to identify while Chinese is the topic-predominant language with topic-comment patterns as its prototype.The paper selects a large number of news items covering a wide range of subjects from CCTV news channel website and the Xinhua net as the paper’s corpus,Through the comparative study of both English and Chinese at the level of sentence then to text,the paper is trying to analyze the similarities and dissimilarities of source language and target language in their conversion process.Meanwhile,this paper draws a new conclusion that Theme-Rheme structures help us find the semantic connections between source language and target language.The novel point is that this is a two-way communication,namely,not only is the target language in accordance with source language,but also the source language conforms to the habitual usage of target language,realizing the stylistic equivalence between two texts.In a sense,the study of Theme-Rheme structure provides a great boost to the News Translation.
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On March 12th, on the third anniversary of the start of green fi-ber logo certification, China Chemical Fibers Association held the first "Green Life, Green Fibers-Green Fibers Theme Fashion Show" to fur-ther strengthen the promotion of green fibers logo certification, further integrate the scientific and technological achievements of green develop- ment with industrial channels, and promote the green process of chemical fibers industry.
文摘Thematic structure and information structure are two important closely-related systems in textual function. By analyzing the thematic structure of a popular on-line English poem, this paper attempts to reveal how theme and rheme is arranged to carry new information forward to achieve its textual function.
