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
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
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 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
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 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.
