Abstract—Thematic Structure theory is one of the most
important methods for analyzing texts. Based on the research
of thematic structure, Danes proposed the concept of thematic
progression pattern. Linguists at home and abroad have used
thematic progression patterns to study various types of
discourse. However, the research on the theme and thematic
progression patterns of economic journalistic texts is rare.
Based on this, This paper selects three articles of economic
news from China Daily and uses quantitative method.
Thematic progression patterns (TP patterns) used in economic
journalistic texts and the frequency of occurrence of each
thematic progression pattern (TP pattern) were analyzed in
this paper. The aim of this paper is to help readers to
understand economic journalistic texts, grasp the author's
intention and discourse mechanism.
Index Terms—Economic journalistic texts, theme, thematic
progression pattern (TP pattern).
The authors are with Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an,
Shaanxi province, China (e-mail: 1170738892@qq.com).
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Cite:Xiangyun Zhang and Xiaolan Lei, "The Study on Thematic Progression Patterns in Economic Journalistic Texts from China Daily," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 46-50, 2020.