Text Construction in Translating Chinese Poetry into English——An Analysis of Textual Metafunction for the Poem"Deng Guan Que Lou"

The Discourse Function of Inversion in Pride and Prejudice;

The discourse-pragmatic approach to syntax focuses on the selection of syntactic structures and the discourse functions of syntactic structures from the perspective of their emerging discourse environments.

The systematicity of metaphorical concepts and the interaction between the conceptual domains of metaphor endow me-taphor with discourse functions.

Pragmatic Functions and Textual Functions of Discourse Connectives in Terms of Relavance Theory;

This thesis attempts to study the textual functions of EST passive voice at the textual level from a pragmatic perspective.

It is found that lexical chunks are an integral part of written discourses,performing a wide range of discourse functions.

The pragmatic underpinnings for the use of English preposings are demonstrated by the various discourse functions of this type of sentence structures.

Halliday s textual metafunction theory, mainly composed of theme-rheme system, new information-given information system and cohesion system, serves as a significant reference to the problems of cohesion and coherence in translation.

The usages of passive voice have been put forward by many linguists from the phase of syntax,while this essay,based on the Textual metafunction of the Ideational metafunctions by Halliday,analyzes the textual metafunction of passive voice from the phase the discourse analysis.

This paper intends to make an analysis of textual metafunction for the Tang poem Chun Xiao and its English translations with the theme-rheme system,information structure and cohesion system.

This paper first presents the definitions of reference and anaphora,then reviews the studies on anaphora from the perspective of functional discourse,both at home and abroad,and discusses the merits and defects of each research method.