The Application of Thematic Progression in English-Chinese Translation Practice

DOI

10.2991/icemet-16.2016.394How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Theme; rheme; thematic progression; translation.

Abstract

With the development of linguistics, the conceptions of theme and rheme as well as thematic progression have aroused attention in translation area as the three conceptions provide a new thought in translation, which makes the translation more flexible instead of concentrating on the elements in a sentence. However, each language has its own characters, so as the thematic progression in different languages. In this paper, six common thematic progression will be introduced, and whether the original thematic progression in English should or can be retained in the translated Chinese version will be discussed, in order to sort out relevant translation methods for the above issues.

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© 2016, 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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AU  - Hongping Chen
AU  - Xiaomei Zhang
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TI  - The Application of Thematic Progression in English-Chinese Translation Practice
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
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