Based on the theoretical foundation of thematic progression construction, this paper introduces several common patterns of thematic progression and attempts to find applicability of patterns of thematic progression in...Based on the theoretical foundation of thematic progression construction, this paper introduces several common patterns of thematic progression and attempts to find applicability of patterns of thematic progression in the teaching of CET-4 argumentative writing from the perspective of discourse so as to show the implication of these patterns for the teaching of college English writing.展开更多
This article is about the analysis on the selection of Thematic Progression of the interview program "Yi Shu Ren Sheng"which is about Zhao Benshan.It analyzes the second section of the interview.The study ai...This article is about the analysis on the selection of Thematic Progression of the interview program "Yi Shu Ren Sheng"which is about Zhao Benshan.It analyzes the second section of the interview.The study aims at applying Danes'theory of thematic progression to conduct a study of thematic progression patterns of the interview.展开更多
Based on the six Thematic Progression patterns proposed by Huang Guowen,a comparative study of argumentative writing by Chinese English majors is carried out,aiming at finding out the features of thematic progression ...Based on the six Thematic Progression patterns proposed by Huang Guowen,a comparative study of argumentative writing by Chinese English majors is carried out,aiming at finding out the features of thematic progression in college writing from a developmental perspective.The research results show that the parallel progression,the continuous progression and the concentrated progression are the tendency TP patterns by Chinese English Majors in the argumentative writing.In addition,Grade two is a key stage where the ability has a substantial change.Therefore,teachers and students should take full advantage of the best learning opportunity.展开更多
This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some...This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some implications on improving listening comprehension.展开更多
Thematic Progression Patterns are the principal base for English advertisement analysis. Nowadays, it has attracted many experts in this field. Thematic Progression plays very important roles in the creation, developm...Thematic Progression Patterns are the principal base for English advertisement analysis. Nowadays, it has attracted many experts in this field. Thematic Progression plays very important roles in the creation, development and establishment of English advertisement. This paper introduces four main types of Thematic Progression patterns and the analysis of English advertisement from Thematic Progression perspective.展开更多
This paper discusses about how to use the theory of thematic progression in translation. Some linguists have talked about thematic progression in their works, but most of them are related to stylistics. This paper wil...This paper discusses about how to use the theory of thematic progression in translation. Some linguists have talked about thematic progression in their works, but most of them are related to stylistics. This paper will pay much attention to the relationship between the patterns of thematic progression and the translation between English and Chinese, and how to use thematic progression in understanding and translating between English and Chinese.展开更多
The pattern of thematic progression,reflecting the semantic relationships between contextual two sentences,is an important subject in discourse analysis.We introduce a new corpus of Chinese news discourses annotated w...The pattern of thematic progression,reflecting the semantic relationships between contextual two sentences,is an important subject in discourse analysis.We introduce a new corpus of Chinese news discourses annotated with thematic progression information and explore some computational methods to automatically extracting the discourse structural features of simplified thematic progression pattern(STPP)between contextual sentences in a text.Furthermore,these features are used in a hybrid approach to a major discourse analysis task,Chinese coreference resolution.This novel approach is built up via heuristic sieves and a machine learning method that comprehensively utilizes both the top-down STPP features and the bottom-up semantic features.Experimental results on the intersection of the CoNLL-2012 task shared dataset and the CDTC corpus demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.展开更多
This paper discusses the semantic coherence in discourse translation from the perspective of thematic progression, and holds that in translating a discourse the translator should spare no effort to retain the origina...This paper discusses the semantic coherence in discourse translation from the perspective of thematic progression, and holds that in translating a discourse the translator should spare no effort to retain the original thematic progression pattern in the target text, but when the original thematic progression pattern cannot be directly retained, the translator should construct his own thematic structure and substitute progression pattern in the target text, thus to make it as readable as the original text without distorting the original information structure. This paper also attempts to explore the circumstances under which the original thematic progression pattern can be retained and the substitute should be reconstructed.展开更多
This paper provides a detailed analysis about the themes and the thematic progression of a certain text, with Halliday's Systemic-Functional ideas as the theoretical foundation. Based on this, the paper discloses the...This paper provides a detailed analysis about the themes and the thematic progression of a certain text, with Halliday's Systemic-Functional ideas as the theoretical foundation. Based on this, the paper discloses the significance of theme and thematic progression in the development of text, which includes forming a semantic chain and achieving a comprehensive understanding of a text.展开更多
As a unique discourse genre,public speaking plays an important role in conveying the speaker’s position,gaining consensus of public opinion,even initiating a call and arousing the audience’s actions.Based on a comme...As a unique discourse genre,public speaking plays an important role in conveying the speaker’s position,gaining consensus of public opinion,even initiating a call and arousing the audience’s actions.Based on a commencement speech from the School of Medicine of Tsinghua university,this paper identifies four types of thematic progression pattern,their use and discourse features,the speech purpose and its gist,the distribution of different types of thematic progression pattern within the framework of the Theme-Rheme progression pattern of Systemic Functional Linguistics.By doing so,the speaker’s state position,alma mater position and her individual position are conveyed respectively and it is of significance to provide reference for the organization method of speech discourse during the special epidemic period.展开更多
This paper is an attempt to discuss the relationship between genre and the thematic progression. Through qualitative analysis of the short story Necklace of Maupassant, it is found that narrative texts always use the ...This paper is an attempt to discuss the relationship between genre and the thematic progression. Through qualitative analysis of the short story Necklace of Maupassant, it is found that narrative texts always use the linear theme pattern and the constant theme pattern, and sometimes the derived theme pattern and other patterns are also used to facilitate the text coherence and the plot development. Thematic progression in various fields has been studied extensively, but the analysis aims to short story is less than text coherence and other aspects. And there are some implications to teaching, writing, reading, and translation.展开更多
Abstracts,as an important part of academic papers,have been widely researched.In this study,10 English abstracts selected from the journal articles of medicine are analyzed from the perspective of five-move pattern an...Abstracts,as an important part of academic papers,have been widely researched.In this study,10 English abstracts selected from the journal articles of medicine are analyzed from the perspective of five-move pattern and thematic progression pattern.The findings reveal that first,Move 1,Move 3 and Move 4 involving research method and result occupy a large part of the abstract.Second,compared with the other three moves,thematic progression pattern is applied more frequently in Move 3 and Move4.Third,constant thematic pattern and linear pattern are applied frequently than constant rheme pattern and cross pattern.The findings of this study are helpful to improve the writing criteria of English abstracts of papers in international psychological journals.展开更多
Reading ability is very important in English learning. English reading teaching is critical for the improvement of English ability. However, most teachers simply stop at the cohesion of a single word while teaching En...Reading ability is very important in English learning. English reading teaching is critical for the improvement of English ability. However, most teachers simply stop at the cohesion of a single word while teaching English, ignoring discourse analysis.This paper analyzes the cohesion and coherence between the texts as well as the main body and subject. Moreover, the author also illustrates the application of thematic progression theory in college English reading teaching and the importance of discourse analysis, which hopes to help further improve the effectiveness of college English teaching.展开更多
This paper intends to introduce briefly the thematic progression patterns in Systemic- Functional Grammar, then analyze its application in "The Great Learning" which is one of the classics of the Confucius a...This paper intends to introduce briefly the thematic progression patterns in Systemic- Functional Grammar, then analyze its application in "The Great Learning" which is one of the classics of the Confucius and his disciples. The analysis of the thematic progression patterns of "The Great Learning" is meaningful for both understanding and appreciating "The Great Learning".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
文摘Based on the theoretical foundation of thematic progression construction, this paper introduces several common patterns of thematic progression and attempts to find applicability of patterns of thematic progression in the teaching of CET-4 argumentative writing from the perspective of discourse so as to show the implication of these patterns for the teaching of college English writing.
文摘This article is about the analysis on the selection of Thematic Progression of the interview program "Yi Shu Ren Sheng"which is about Zhao Benshan.It analyzes the second section of the interview.The study aims at applying Danes'theory of thematic progression to conduct a study of thematic progression patterns of the interview.
文摘Based on the six Thematic Progression patterns proposed by Huang Guowen,a comparative study of argumentative writing by Chinese English majors is carried out,aiming at finding out the features of thematic progression in college writing from a developmental perspective.The research results show that the parallel progression,the continuous progression and the concentrated progression are the tendency TP patterns by Chinese English Majors in the argumentative writing.In addition,Grade two is a key stage where the ability has a substantial change.Therefore,teachers and students should take full advantage of the best learning opportunity.
文摘This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some implications on improving listening comprehension.
文摘Thematic Progression Patterns are the principal base for English advertisement analysis. Nowadays, it has attracted many experts in this field. Thematic Progression plays very important roles in the creation, development and establishment of English advertisement. This paper introduces four main types of Thematic Progression patterns and the analysis of English advertisement from Thematic Progression perspective.
文摘This paper discusses about how to use the theory of thematic progression in translation. Some linguists have talked about thematic progression in their works, but most of them are related to stylistics. This paper will pay much attention to the relationship between the patterns of thematic progression and the translation between English and Chinese, and how to use thematic progression in understanding and translating between English and Chinese.
基金This research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61728205,61673290,61672371,61750110534,61876217Science&Technology Development Project of Suzhou under grant SYG201817.
文摘The pattern of thematic progression,reflecting the semantic relationships between contextual two sentences,is an important subject in discourse analysis.We introduce a new corpus of Chinese news discourses annotated with thematic progression information and explore some computational methods to automatically extracting the discourse structural features of simplified thematic progression pattern(STPP)between contextual sentences in a text.Furthermore,these features are used in a hybrid approach to a major discourse analysis task,Chinese coreference resolution.This novel approach is built up via heuristic sieves and a machine learning method that comprehensively utilizes both the top-down STPP features and the bottom-up semantic features.Experimental results on the intersection of the CoNLL-2012 task shared dataset and the CDTC corpus demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
文摘This paper discusses the semantic coherence in discourse translation from the perspective of thematic progression, and holds that in translating a discourse the translator should spare no effort to retain the original thematic progression pattern in the target text, but when the original thematic progression pattern cannot be directly retained, the translator should construct his own thematic structure and substitute progression pattern in the target text, thus to make it as readable as the original text without distorting the original information structure. This paper also attempts to explore the circumstances under which the original thematic progression pattern can be retained and the substitute should be reconstructed.
文摘This paper provides a detailed analysis about the themes and the thematic progression of a certain text, with Halliday's Systemic-Functional ideas as the theoretical foundation. Based on this, the paper discloses the significance of theme and thematic progression in the development of text, which includes forming a semantic chain and achieving a comprehensive understanding of a text.
基金This paper is funded by the Shanxi Soft Science Program entitled“Research on College Talents Training Mode of ESP Teaching for the Economic Transformation and Development of Shanxi Province”(2019041008-5).
文摘As a unique discourse genre,public speaking plays an important role in conveying the speaker’s position,gaining consensus of public opinion,even initiating a call and arousing the audience’s actions.Based on a commencement speech from the School of Medicine of Tsinghua university,this paper identifies four types of thematic progression pattern,their use and discourse features,the speech purpose and its gist,the distribution of different types of thematic progression pattern within the framework of the Theme-Rheme progression pattern of Systemic Functional Linguistics.By doing so,the speaker’s state position,alma mater position and her individual position are conveyed respectively and it is of significance to provide reference for the organization method of speech discourse during the special epidemic period.
文摘This paper is an attempt to discuss the relationship between genre and the thematic progression. Through qualitative analysis of the short story Necklace of Maupassant, it is found that narrative texts always use the linear theme pattern and the constant theme pattern, and sometimes the derived theme pattern and other patterns are also used to facilitate the text coherence and the plot development. Thematic progression in various fields has been studied extensively, but the analysis aims to short story is less than text coherence and other aspects. And there are some implications to teaching, writing, reading, and translation.
文摘Abstracts,as an important part of academic papers,have been widely researched.In this study,10 English abstracts selected from the journal articles of medicine are analyzed from the perspective of five-move pattern and thematic progression pattern.The findings reveal that first,Move 1,Move 3 and Move 4 involving research method and result occupy a large part of the abstract.Second,compared with the other three moves,thematic progression pattern is applied more frequently in Move 3 and Move4.Third,constant thematic pattern and linear pattern are applied frequently than constant rheme pattern and cross pattern.The findings of this study are helpful to improve the writing criteria of English abstracts of papers in international psychological journals.
文摘Reading ability is very important in English learning. English reading teaching is critical for the improvement of English ability. However, most teachers simply stop at the cohesion of a single word while teaching English, ignoring discourse analysis.This paper analyzes the cohesion and coherence between the texts as well as the main body and subject. Moreover, the author also illustrates the application of thematic progression theory in college English reading teaching and the importance of discourse analysis, which hopes to help further improve the effectiveness of college English teaching.
文摘This paper intends to introduce briefly the thematic progression patterns in Systemic- Functional Grammar, then analyze its application in "The Great Learning" which is one of the classics of the Confucius and his disciples. The analysis of the thematic progression patterns of "The Great Learning" is meaningful for both understanding and appreciating "The Great Learning".
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.