Sample texts of English prose and poetry and their Chinese translations are closely examined and analyzed with respect to those concerns involving such notions as transitivity,theme-rheme organization,prominence,perspective,specificity,and secondary activation,to get a better understanding of the evolving concept of equivalence.

Theme and rheme in teaching writing and reading;

Theme/Rheme Theory & Legal Contract Translation(English to Chinese);

Studies of theme/rheme and given/new information have always been characterised by profusion of terms and diversity of ideas.

The chapter of theoretical framework narrates SFL meta-functions and Halliday\'s theme/rheme theory, sets up the criteria for identifying themes and introduces ten types of thematic progression patterns.