A Comparative Study of Thematic Progression Patterns Between Narration and Argumentation in New Concept English

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.233How to use a DOI?

Keywords

thematic progression, narration, argumentation, New Concept English

Abstract

Thematic progression is an important concept in systemic functional linguistics. Apart from its theoretical value, it means a lot to reading comprehension and essay-writing because thematic progression patterns reveal how sentences are connected. Most studies are based on one specific text type rather than comparing different text types. This paper, based on narrative texts and argumentative ones, compares the similarities and differences in the distribution of thematic progression patterns in two different text types and finds that both types employ various thematic progression patterns, and thematic progression with a constant theme is the most common pattern. Furthermore, thematic progression patterns are more evenly distributed in argumentative samples than in narrative ones. The second difference lies in themes exploited in two types.

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© 2021, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoli Guo
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - A Comparative Study of Thematic Progression Patterns Between Narration and Argumentation in New Concept English
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1170
EP  - 1174
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.233
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.233
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