| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-9页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第9-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-14页 |
| ·BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY | 第10-11页 |
| ·PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH | 第11-12页 |
| ·THE LAYOUT OF THIS THESIS | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-28页 |
| ·THEMATIC SYSTEM AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS | 第14-23页 |
| ·A Brief Historical Review of Discourse Analysis | 第14-15页 |
| ·Definitions and Classification for Theme/Rheme and Thematic Progression | 第15-21页 |
| ·Thematic Structure vs. Information Structure | 第21-23页 |
| ·DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE IN THEMATIC SYSTEM | 第23-25页 |
| ·Hypotaxis-Prominence in English with S-P Mechanism | 第23-24页 |
| ·Parataxis-Prominence in Chinese with T-C Construction | 第24-25页 |
| ·RELEVANT RESEARCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD | 第25-27页 |
| ·Retrospect of Theme-based Textual Translation Studies | 第25-26页 |
| ·Looking Back the Studies of RA Abstracts | 第26-27页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第27-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第28-35页 |
| ·RESEARCH QUESTIONS | 第28页 |
| ·DATA COLLECTION | 第28-29页 |
| ·INSTRUMENTS | 第29-30页 |
| ·THEME-IDENTIFYING IN THIS THESIS | 第30-33页 |
| ·DATA ANALYSIS | 第33-35页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS | 第35-48页 |
| ·SIMPLE AND MULTIPLE THEMES | 第35-39页 |
| ·MARKED AND UNMARKED THEMES | 第39-44页 |
| ·THEMATIC PROGRESSION | 第44-48页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE APPLICATION OF THEMATIC STRUCTURE AND TP IN TRANSLATION | 第48-60页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS OF THEME-BASED TEXTUAL TRANSLATION | 第48-53页 |
| ·Coincidence of Themes | 第49-51页 |
| ·Deviation of Themes | 第51-53页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS OF THEMATIC PROGRESSION TO C-E TRANSLATION | 第53-57页 |
| ·Preserving the Original Thematic Progression Patterns | 第54-55页 |
| ·Abandoning the Original Thematic Progression and Creating TT's Own | 第55-57页 |
| ·THREE PRINCIPLES FOR C-E ABSTRACTS TRANSLATION PRACTICE | 第57-59页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第59-60页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK | 第60-64页 |
| ·MAJOR FINDINGS | 第60-62页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY | 第62页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY | 第62-64页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第64-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-69页 |
| APPENDIX | 第69页 |
| 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文目录 | 第69页 |
