Patterns of Thematic Progression Analysis of Abstracts in Cognitive Linguistics Journals

Abstract

Thematic progression pattern is an important part of discourse linguistics. In journal papers, an abstract is a mandatory part to explain the main body and views of the paper, and it also becomes the key for readers to decide whether they are willing to read the paper or not. Analyzing the abstracts of papers published in the international journal Cognitive Linguistics from the perspective of thematic progression patterns can effectively improve researchers’ understanding of the semantic construction and information transmission of the abstracts of cognitive linguistics. This will not only help them understand cognitive linguistics more accurately and quickly and obtain important information but also help authors write high-quality papers with clear context and clear coherence. According to research, in the abstracts of cognitive linguistics papers, simple linear models and the constant theme models are used more frequently than centralized models.