A Study on the Translation Strategy of Theme Structure in English News Headlines in the Omnimedia Era

DOI

10.2991/emim-17.2017.277How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Omnimedia; News headlines; Thematic structures; Translation strategies

Abstract

In the context of the omnimedia era, English news is one of the quickest ways to communicate information between China and foreign countries. English news headlines have their own characteristics. To some extent, news headlines can reveal the inherent nature of the news. The thematic structure of the English news title is the focus of the discourse, the entry point, which is the object of rheme structure. Because the subjective position always occupied by Thematic structure, the special grammatical function of the sentence head position, it determines the special function of the individual subject, the subject of the complex and the subject of the sentence in the whole news headline. In the translation of the thematic structure, the appropriate use of translation strategies can highlight the functionality of the news and highlight the important function of the title.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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