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 is to explore the similar and different syntactic linear patterns and thought modals among English, Chinese and the Shui language, discussing this topic from microscopic, giving a much detailed contrast and...This paper is to explore the similar and different syntactic linear patterns and thought modals among English, Chinese and the Shui language, discussing this topic from microscopic, giving a much detailed contrast and comparison on microscopic English, Chinese and the Shui language syntactic.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This paper is to explore the similar and different syntactic linear patterns and thought modals among English, Chinese and the Shui language, discussing this topic from microscopic, giving a much detailed contrast and comparison on microscopic English, Chinese and the Shui language syntactic.
