A contrastive approach to the thematic analysis of text and genre: An examination of lead news articles in Le Monde, Al-Ittihad, and The New York Times

Description

This thesis examines thematization and patterns of thematic progression (TP) in French, Arabic, and English lead news articles. Similarities between French, Arabic, and English themic lead news stories at the clausal and textual levels suggest that there may be a fundamental principle underlying how the mind organizes language. The results may be applied to the creation of translation software that is faithful to source texts at the sentential and global levels or used in teaching in a second language classroom.

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1. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2578
2. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3595&context=etd-project

Tags

Contrastive linguistics

Discourse Analysis

Comparative Grammar

Journalism

Rhetoric

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-3595
Date	01 January 2004
Creators	Burlaga, Christine Marie
Publisher	CSUSB ScholarWorks
Source Sets	California State University San Bernardino
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Theses Digitization Project