(LUẬN văn THẠC sĩ) THE ATTITUDINAL RESOURCES IN THE FILM KONG SKULL ISLAND BY JORDAN VOGT ROBERTS

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY PHAN THÁI THỊ LỆ THU THE ATTITUDINAL RESOURCES IN THE FILM KONG: SKULL ISLAND BY JORDAN VOGT-ROBERTS Field: English Linguistics Code: 8.22.02.01 Supervisor: NGŨ THIỆN HÙNG, Ph.D download by : skknchat@gmail.com BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN PHAN THÁI THỊ LỆ THU NGHĨA THÁI ĐỘ TRONG PHIM KONG: ĐẢO ĐẦU LÂU BỞI JORDAN VOGT-ROBERTS Chuyên ngành : Ngôn Ngữ Anh Mã số : 8.22.02.01 Người hướng dẫn: TS NGŨ THIỆN HÙNG download by : skknchat@gmail.com i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I hereby certify this thesis “The Attitudinal Resources in the Film Kong: Skull Island by Jordan Vogt-Roberts” is my own work This thesis contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole, or in part of a thesis by which I have qualified for or been awarded another degree or diploma except where reference is made in the text of the thesis No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the thesis This thesis has not been submitted for the award of any degree or diploma in any other tertiary institution Bình Định, September 2019 Phan Thái Thị Lệ Thu download by : skknchat@gmail.com ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I gratefully acknowledge my deep indebtedness to all of my teachers who have provided me with useful and interesting lectures, which have helped me to lay the foundation for this thesis In particular, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Dr Ngũ Thiện Hùng- my supervisor Without his enthusiastic guidance, helpful advice, and enormous encouragement, this thesis would have been far from being accomplished I also give special thanks to all of my classmates, M.A students of English course 20th at Quy Nhơn University who gave me their help during the time I studied and conducted my thesis Finally, I can say that I owe my debt to my whole beloved family for their continuous encouragement and support during the years of my study Without them, I am sure I would not be able to finish my thesis From the bottom of my heart, I have to say many thanks to you for being such a great family and for everything download by : skknchat@gmail.com iii ABSTRACT The present study examined sub-categories of Attitude- Affect, Judgement, and Appreciation- expressed in the subtitles of the film “Kong: Skull Island” by Jordan Vogt-Roberts in the light of Appraisal Theory The study aimed to investigate the syntactic and semantic realizations of Attitude sub-categories from over 350 samples collected from the subtitles of the film The thesis employed the descriptive method to fully describe the realizations of Attitude sub-categories in terms of syntax and semantics to achieve the setting goals The findings of the research demonstrated that Attitude subcategories could be identified in various group and phrase structures in which nominal groups and adjective groups are more favourable The study also worked out typical functions of Attitude sub-categories as components in transitivity processes Semantically, the findings indicated that all Appraisal evaluating criteria were expressed in the film and significantly the positive values are dominant This is the interpersonal meaning which the film contributes to nurture its viewers’ insights to the reality of the world in the era of digital technology The study apparently contributes to help us understand the sub-categories of Attitude in the film and provides the teachers and university students majoring in English with practical implication to evaluate a discourse fragment and interpret a discourse fragment in the light of Appraisal Theory and in line with Systemic Functional Linguistics download by : skknchat@gmail.com iv TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii ABSTRACT iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS vi LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES viii CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 RATIONALE 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims of the study 1.2.2 Objectives of the study 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 PREVIOUS STUDIES 2.2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 11 2.2.1 Systemic functional linguistics 11 2.2.2 Appraisal theory 13 2.2.3 Attitude as a category encoding attitudinal meaning 15 2.2.4 Syntactic realizations of attitude - experimental elements of clause as representation 25 2.2.5 Structures of word groups and phrases 30 2.3 SUMMARY 36 CHAPTER RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 37 3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN 37 download by : skknchat@gmail.com v 3.2 RESEARCH PROCEDURE 37 3.3 RESEARCH METHODS 38 3.4 DATA COLLECTION 39 3.4.1 Sampling 39 3.4.2 Procedure of data collection 41 3.4.3 Instruments 42 3.5 DATA ANALYSIS 42 3.6 SUMMARY 43 CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 44 4.1 SYNTACTIC REALIZATIONS OF ATTITUDE SUB-CATEGORIES 44 4.1.1 Syntactic realizations of affect 44 4.1.2 Syntactic realizations of judgement 54 4.1.3 Syntactic realizations of appreciation 59 4.2 SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ATTITUDE RESOURCES IN KONG: SKULL ISLAND IN VIEW OF APPRAISAL 71 4.2.1 Semantic features of affect markers 72 4.2.2 Semantic features of judgement markers 75 4.2.3 Semantic features of appreciation markers 79 4.3 SUMMARY 83 CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 84 5.1 CONCLUSIONS 84 5.2 IMPLICATIONS 85 5.2.1 To the teachers 85 5.2.2 To the learners 86 5.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 87 5.4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 88 REFERENCES 89 download by : skknchat@gmail.com vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Aff : Affect App : Appreciation Cap : Judgement: Capacity Comp : Appreciation: Composition Exp : Explicit Hap : Affect: Un/Happiness Imp : Implicit Inc : Affect: Dis/Inclination Judg : Judgement Norm : Judgement: Normality Prop : Judgement: Propriety Ri : Appreciation: reaction-impact Rq : Appreciation: reaction-quality Sat : Affect: Satisfaction Sec : Affect: In/Security SFL : Systemic Functional Linguistic SFG : Systemic Functional Grammar Ten : Judgement: Tenacity Val : Valuation Ver : Judgement: Veracity (-) : Negative (+) : Positive download by : skknchat@gmail.com vii LIST OF TABLES Table Title number Page number 2.1 Judgement - Social Esteem 18 2.2 Judgement - Social Sanction 19 2.3 Types of appreciation 22 2.4 Typical functions of group and phrase classes 26 2.5 The principle categories of ‘relational’ clause 28 4.1 Summary structures of affect nominal groups 48 4.2 Summary structures of affect adjectival groups 52 4.3 Summary structures of affect adverbial groups 53 4.4 Summary structures of appreciation adjectival groups 66 4.5 Summary of group and phrase structures of attitude sub- 68 categories 4.6 Distribution of group and phrase structures in attitude 70 sub-categories 4.7 Un/happiness realizations of affect 72 4.8 Dis/satisfaction realizations of affect 73 4.9 In/security realizations of affect 74 4.10 In/security realizations of affect 75 4.11 Occurrence frequencies of affect semantic values 75 4.12 The semantic realization of Social Esteem 77 4.13 The semantic realization of Social Sanction 78 4.14 Occurrence frequencies of judgement semantic values 78 4.15 Occurrence frequencies of appreciation semantic values 81 4.16 Summary of semantic realizations of attitude sub- 82 categories download by : skknchat@gmail.com viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure Title number Page number 2.1 An overview of appraisal resources 14 2.2 The affect system and its lexical instanciations 16 2.3 The system of appreciation and its lexical instanciations 21 2.4 Judgement and appreciation as institutionalized affect 24 2.5 Language strata 25 2.6 Components of a process 27 2.7 Material process in active and passive clause 27 2.8 Illustration of mental processes 28 2.9 Existential processes 29 2.10 Experiential structure of part of a nominal group 30 2.11 Qualifier in nominal group 32 2.12 Nominal group, showing multivariate structure 32 2.13 Experiential structure of the verbal group 33 2.14 Verbal group with marked polarity and contrastive tense 33 2.15 Pre-modification in the adverbial group 33 2.16 Adverbial groups with embedded post-modifiers 34 2.17 Adjective group 34 4.1 Affect verbal groups as process in desiderative mental process 46 4.2 Affect verbal groups as process in emotive mental process 46 4.3 Affect verbal groups as process in passive material process 47 4.4 Affect nominal groups as processed in possessive relational process 49 4.5 Affect nominal groups as existent in existential process 49 4.6 Affect adjectival groups as attributes in attributive relational 52 download by : skknchat@gmail.com ... author’s viewpoints and construe the interpersonal meaning has inspired me to develop the research entitled ? ?The Attitudinal Resources in the Film Kong: Skull Island by Jordan Vogt- Roberts? ?? 1.2... appearing in the film Kong: Skull Island In this thesis, we just focused on the syntactic and semantic features of the linguistic units used to indicate the attitude in the subtitles in the film Kong: ... this thesis ? ?The Attitudinal Resources in the Film Kong: Skull Island by Jordan Vogt- Roberts? ?? is my own work This thesis contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole, or in part