Generic potential theory and discourse translation;

On the three layers of context and English-Chinese discourse translation

With the developmant of the translation studies,much attention has been paid to discourse translation.

Theme-related theories are widely applied to C-E & E-C textual translation studies, which focus on four aspects, i.

Cultural context and register theory play a great role in textual translation.

This paper probes into textual translation from the perspective of Thematic Progression(TP) and holds that patterns of TP and their textual effects should be taken into consideration in translation studies and translation practice.

Based on the findings of text linguistics,text translation has provided a new perspective for the translation study.

Compared with conventional translation strategies,text translation better defines and justifies partial translation,a common but controversial translational phenomenon.

The contrast between English and Chinese cohesions and the relationship between text translation and cohesions are discussed.

To fulfill the goal of improving students translation ability,heightening students text translation concept shall be taken as the central task of translation course.