Textual Construction In E-C Translation From The Perspective Of CF Marked Theme

In English to Chinese translation, translators might neglect some important information about the source text and the author's intention. However, they could have avoided this kind of mistakes through textual analysis, which allows them to master the textuality of the source text. Textuality means seven characteristics of texts, including cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, situationality, informativity and intertextuality. It is a way leading to the important information and the author's intention of source texts.One approach to textual analysis is to discuss marked theme, especially the marked theme with context frame (CF marked theme). Therefore, by conducting textual analysis on it, translators might find those major messages and the construction features implied in source texts, which will be proved to be the guidance to textual construction in translation in this report.This report, based on four cohesive chapters in a novel named In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, will conduct a textual analysis on the CF marked theme in those four chapters. Those CF marked theme will be classified into five categories, meaning the time and place, description, validation and viewpoint, condition, and logic. And then this report will talk about how these different kinds of CF marked theme show features of texts so as to master the significant information of the text.And it turns out that CF marked theme belonging to the same category will represent different textuality. This can reveal major messages in source text, and these messages will play an important role in constructing a translation that sticks to the source text.