A VIETNAMESE ENGLISH CROSS CULTURAL STUDY OF PROMISING

... learned patterns of behavior and belief, cultural traints can be unlearned and learned a new as human need change. Obviously, language cannot occur alone and is never separated from social activities ... is a social interaction in which various factors relating to social distance and closeness are at play. Some of these factors are external to the interaction (social status, age,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:49

... Northern Vietnamese dialect and the English spoken by Anglophone community of England, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, are chosen for contrastive analysis. - The data are collected ... questionnaire aims at finding out the informants’ o Age o Gender o Marital status o Living area, and 55 o Acquisition of foreign languages All of the informants are Vietnamese and En...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

... Survey questionnaire This survey questionnaire is designed for my research into A Vietnamese – American cross- cultural study of touching behaviour”. Your assistance in completing the ... marrital status: - Married - Single  Your occupation: ___________________________________________________  Area where you have spent most of your time: - Urban - Rural  Acquisition of langua...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:08

... Australia, the majority of informants are Australians and the rest are British, American, New Zealand, and Canadian people. It is essential that certain knowledge of the informants' background ... misinterpretations, misunderstandings and culture shock in English - Vietnamese cross- cultural communication. • To raise potential cross- cultural interactants’ awareness of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:58

... called cultural traits”. A trait may be a custom, such as burial of the dead; a gesture, such as a handshake or an idea, such as democracy. Following this understanding, cultural trait may ... communicative competent means, roughly speaking, to be able to communicate that which you wish to communicate. 1.4 Cross- Cultural Pragmatics Pragmatics is the study of language...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... interest because it requires a great deal of pragmatic insight by the speaker and therefore are often rich with data that reveal the cultural orientation of language learners. (In many languages, compliment ... illocutionary act and perlocutionnary act. * Locutionary act: Are sentences that conform to the phonological and grammatical convention of the language. A Vietnamese pro...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41