With the rapid development of economic globalization, the exchanges between countries are increasingly intertwined. As the pillar industry of the world economy, the oil industry plays an irreplaceable role in international exchanges and cooperation. Petroleum English, as a special style and branch of scientific and technological English, covers a wide range of fields such as oil drilling English, oilfield development English, petrochemical English and so on. Thematic-rheme theory is an important part of discourse linguistics, which plays a vital role in guiding translation practice. At present, the deepening of economic globalization makes petroleum English increasingly important, and its translation quality is directly related to the national image. From the perspective of Halliday's thematic-rheme theory, this article discusses the two discourse thematic advance modes, as well as the thematic and rheme components in petroleum English and their translation. It is hoped that it will help the translator to grasp the author's intention and analyze the text structure, so as to maximize the textual communication function.

Wu Zhilei. Research on the Method of Playing Beautiful Children’s SongsThematic, Rheme Analysis and Translation Studies of Petroleum English. Frontiers in Educational Research (2020) Vol. 3 Issue 13: 81-86. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2020.031314.

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