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 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
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
The thematic progression Patterns help to clarify the semantic relationships between the sentences and the method of the development in the texts,and they have been one of the important methods to analyze the discours...The thematic progression Patterns help to clarify the semantic relationships between the sentences and the method of the development in the texts,and they have been one of the important methods to analyze the discourse sequences in the text linguistics and discourse analysis(Qi Yucun,1993).With the theoretical framework of Halliday’s theme-rheme theory and the thematic progression patterns coined by Danes and other major scholars,selecting the two addresses made by Xi Jinping and Obama in the APEC CEO Summit in November 9,2014 as the data resource,this article aims to find out the similarities and differences in the choice of Themes and Thematic Progression Patterns and dig out the possible reasons.Since the two addresses are of the same genre but with different languages,new ideas may be provided in the contrastive discourse studies and the theory of contrastive study on Chinese and American addresses will be enriched through this kind of research.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 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
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
This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be ...This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be drawn. First, his text follows a typical Situation-Problem-Solution-Evaluation pattern. Also, this text applies various lexical sense relations and thematic progression patterns. Eventually, all make each paragraph and the whole text coherent.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
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
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
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 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The thematic progression Patterns help to clarify the semantic relationships between the sentences and the method of the development in the texts,and they have been one of the important methods to analyze the discourse sequences in the text linguistics and discourse analysis(Qi Yucun,1993).With the theoretical framework of Halliday’s theme-rheme theory and the thematic progression patterns coined by Danes and other major scholars,selecting the two addresses made by Xi Jinping and Obama in the APEC CEO Summit in November 9,2014 as the data resource,this article aims to find out the similarities and differences in the choice of Themes and Thematic Progression Patterns and dig out the possible reasons.Since the two addresses are of the same genre but with different languages,new ideas may be provided in the contrastive discourse studies and the theory of contrastive study on Chinese and American addresses will be enriched through this kind of research.
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 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.
文摘This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be drawn. First, his text follows a typical Situation-Problem-Solution-Evaluation pattern. Also, this text applies various lexical sense relations and thematic progression patterns. Eventually, all make each paragraph and the whole text coherent.
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.
