Topic And Topic Conversion In Personage Introduction Texts

Topic and Topic Conversion are two basic conceptions in Modern linguistics. The research about Topic has been an important and hot task that well concentrated by the sphere of learning, After more than fifty years' study, the sphere of learning are focusing on some key problem, such as Topic and Subject, Topic and Focus, The form and the semantics relationship of Topic, The reason of setting up Sub-Topic and so on gradually. However, the sphere of learning cannot afford a clear and certain definition to Topic by now. Topic and Topic Conversion in special texts is seldom mentioned either. Starting with personage introduction texts, on the basis of achievement now available, the author tries to analyze the relationship of Topic and Topic Conversion by analyzing specific language materials. Studies Topic and Topic Conversion microcosmically and tries to open up new angles of view for the research to Topic and Topic Conversion macrocosmically.This thesis can be divided into three parts. In the first part, the author observes and investigates the definition of Topic in personage introduction texts systematically. Topic is a definition of pragmatics, a part of Information structure. Topic shows certain conversational function and has compositional characters. It has to be confirmed in dynamic circumstances. As a conversational conception, Topic has continuity. It has a compass of competency that can cover several sentences, even the whole text. In the second part, the author analyzes the relationship between Topic and the component parts of sentence, Topic and special sentence style, Topic and the VP of sentence in personage introduction texts carefully. In the author's opinion, in view of different tiers of this special type of text, different Topic systems should be set up. Besides Main Topic and Subtopic that had been set up on the tier of sentence, as information known and about ness, Overall Topic and Separated Topic should be set up on the tier of text. Overall Topic is the personage the described and illustrated by the text. Separated Topic iscomments on the tier of text. It is also about ness on the tier of sentence. In the third part, after all these Topic systems had been set up, the author analyzes the conversion of them separately, focused on the conversion between Overall Topic and Separated Topic, which is representative. Two different kinds of circumstances exist in such conversion. Overall Topic converses to time/ location adverbial and NP besides Overall Topic. Former one is the conversion that appears most frequently and later one has its own specialty. This thesis illustrates and reviews these circumstances through analyzing specific language materials.