A Comparative Study Of Transfer Patterns Of Structural Cohesion In E-C Translation

In translating, the awareness of the structural cohesion is conductive to realize the textual cohesion and to approach the functional consistency between the original discourse and translated version. The thesis conducts a tentative study of structural cohesion patterns in English to Chinese translation. 50 discourses of English novels and the Chinese translation versions are chosen. The language materials are chosen randomly. The 100 discourses are analyzed one by one in terms of thematic progression pattern. A tentative study of two versions intends to reveal the transforming rules of structural cohesion in E-C translation. The analysis to language materials has two components. Firstly, by describing the thematic progression patterns used in the 100 discourses, it will provide a clear notion to the times and the frequency of the seven patterns. Secondly, by comparing the thematic progression patterns used in 50 English discourses and corresponding 50 Chinese discourses, the transforming rules of different patterns in E-C translation will be concluded. On most occasions, the translator will follow the structure of the original texts. However, some situations that change the patterns of structural cohesion are also found in the study, such as the parallel pattern in English version always changes into the extendable pattern in Chinese version. In the literature review part, the writer explains the three pairs of terms: theme and rheme, topic and comment, subject and predicate. Also, the writer introduces some principles concluded by former researchers to identify these terms both in English and Chinese sentences. On the basis of identification of these terms, the thesis displays thematic progression patterns that put forward by many researchers. In the following methodology part, the writer introduces specific research design and proposes four questions for the study. In the results and discussion part, some results and answers for proposed questions are provided. In the last part conclusion, the writer concludes the results that this study got. Significance and limitations of the study are also displayed in this part.