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Thematic Progression Patterns in Linguistic M.A. Theses Achieved by Lexical Cohesive Devices-A Comparative Study

Author: JinZuo
Tutor: WangJingYi
School: Beijing Forestry University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Comparative study Linguistics Thesis Summary Thematic Progression Lexical Cohesion
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


With the continuous development of China's foreign academic exchanges , improve academic article writing skills become very important . Abstract is a high-level summary of the content of academic articles , now , a growing number of international publishing units or retrieve bodies are required to be accompanied by an English summary , it has become one important way of scholars with international standards of academic research . , English the paper selected Linguistics Thesis Abstract study Huang Guowen of Thematic Progression Halliday 's thematic structure of the theory as well as climate depend on lexical cohesion as a theoretical framework , native English Linguistics students foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics professional English summary written by Chinese students . Designed to address the following four questions : first , the two groups of students on the type of use of Thematic What's preferences. Second, the two groups of students in Thematic Progression whether there are differences in the mode selection . Thirdly, the two groups of students in lexical cohesion select whether there are differences . Fourth, in different Thematic Progression mode , the most commonly used means of lexical cohesion which . The two groups of students whether there are differences in usage . The study used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods for analysis , the former major for English summary written by the two groups of students carried a specific description , the latter percentage of comparative law , with an independent sample analysis of the data for statistical analysis . The analysis results show that there is no significant difference between the two groups of students in the Thematic preferences . Thematic Progression mode , the Lexical Cohesion use lexical cohesion as well as to promote the process in summary stylistic Theme aspects are differences . This paper then discusses the reasons for the differences arising first possible reasons for the differences caused by the two speech community different communicative modes the communicative purposes difference in abstract writing ; second reason is because each of the two groups of students by this the impact of ethnic language , the differences caused by language habits of expression ; the third reason is the differences in Western thinking patterns . Finally, in the paper , the author proposed some practical advice on writing skills as well as English teaching English summary based on the findings .

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