| With the rapid development of shipping industry and the high frequency of maritime accidents, maritime news is getting more and more remarkable. As people's English ability getting improved and there are different kinds of ways to get maritime news, people can choose to read maritime news in Chinese or in other foreign languages (mainly in English). However, owing to the speciality of maritime language and maritime information, as well as the differences between English and Chinese language system, it is hard to read and understand maritime news texts.TP (Thematic Progression) pattern is one of the most important devices in analysing texts. By combining the thematic structure with coherence, TP tells the dynamic distribution of Themes and Rhemes in texts and analyses the methods of development of a text. This thesis makes a comparative study on English and Chinese maritime news texts. The aim is to figure out the similarities and differences in Thematic Progression patterns between English and Chinese maritime news texts.This thesis collects the maritime articles from several famous newspapers and magazines:The New York Times, Time and Newsweek (in English); China Daily, People's Daily and Guangming Daily (in Chinese) published from January,2009 to October,2010,20 from each,60 in English and 60 in Chinese, altogether 120 samples. Use the collected samples to set up two corpuses:EMN (English Maritime News) Corpus and CMN (Chinese Maritime News) Corpus. Based on the Theme and Rheme division in Halliday's systemic-function grammar and the thematic progression of the Prague School Frantisek Danes, with four TP patterns of Zhu Yongsheng, this thesis studies the textual organization in the EMN and CMN.The results show that although the sequences on the application of four TP patterns in English and Chinese maritime news texts are different, there is no significance. |
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