(Luận văn thạc sĩ) a comparative study of interpersonal meaning in english and vietnamese fables from multimodal perspective

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY PHAN THỊ HỒNG THẮM h A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE FABLES FROM MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE MASTER THESIS IN ENGLISH Binh Dinh - 2019 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY PHAN THỊ HỒNG THẮM h A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE FABLES FROM MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE Field: English Linguistics Code: 22 02 01 Supervisor: VÕ DUY ĐỨC, Ph.D BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN PHAN THỊ HỒNG THẮM NGHIÊN CỨU SO SÁNH NGHĨA LIÊN NHÂN TRONG TRUYỆN NGỤ NGÔN TIẾNG ANH VÀ TIẾNG VIỆT TỪ PHƯƠNG DIỆN ĐA PHƯƠNG THỨC h Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số: 22 02 01 Người hướng dẫn: TS VÕ DUY ĐỨC STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I hereby verify that the thesis titled “A comparative study of interpersonal meaning in English and Vietnamese fables from multimodal perspective” is my own work No other person’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the thesis This thesis contains no material which was previously published or written by another person, except where reference has been made in the text I have not submitted this thesis for the award of any degree, diploma in any university or any other institution Quy Nhon city, 2019 PHAN THI HONG THAM h ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor Dr Võ Duy Đức for his encouragement, source of valuable materials related to multimodal genre, for his continuous support, patience, enthusiasm and immense knowledge His guidance helps me in all the time of writing this thesis, without which this thesis could not be carried out I would send my sincere thanks all the lecturers in the English master course for their perceptive judgments and discerning analysis, for their valuable lectures which provide important materials for this thesis I am also grateful for source of materials and helpful suggestions on fabled genre in my thesis of my friends, who inspired me to this thesis Lastly, my sincere thanks go to my parents, my husband and my son for their love, helping and supporting me spiritually throughout the time this h study is carried out ABSTRACT This thesis aims at conducting a contrastive analysis of the Attitudinal and Interpersonal resources in fables written in English and Vietnamese based on the frameworks of Appraisal developed by Martin and White (2005) and Grammar of Visual Design of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) The data for this research were collected from 50 fables in English and in Vietnamese (25 in each language) In this study, a combination of variety methods such as qualitative, quantitative, descriptive, comparative, analytic and synthetic methods was employed to find out the correlations between fables in English and Vietnamese in terms of how Interpersonal meanings are verbally and visually conveyed The findings of this study show some major similarities in employing evaluative languages in the fables Specifically, negative Affect is used more commonly than positive Affect and positive Appreciation is used h more often than negative one Moreover, the findings show that the imageproducers in both EFs and VFs tend to focus on the contact of Offer In addition, for Horizontal angle, the image-producer wants to employ more Oblique than Frontal angle in both EFs and VFs Some differences were drawn out from the findings The first difference is that the Affect is the most frequently used in EFs while Appreciation ranks first in VFs The next difference lies in the use of Judgement resources Vietnamese writers tend to employ more negative Judgment while English writers tend to the opposite Lastly, for Visual results, the image- producer in EFs tends to employ Long Shot of Social Distance rather than Close shot and Medium shot; while in VFs, the largest percentage is illustrated by Medium shot The results of this thesis make some pratical contribution to teaching and learning English in Vietnam TABLE OF CONTENT SUB- COVERS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale 1.2 Significance of the Study 1.3 Aims and Objectives 1.3.1 Aims h 1.3.2 Objectives 1.4 Research Questions 1.5 Scope of the Study 1.6 Organization of the Study CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Fables 2.2 Appraisal theory 2.2.1 Engagement 2.2.2 Graduation 11 2.2.3 Attitude 12 2.2.4 Summary 20 2.3 Grammar of Visual Design 22 2.3.1 The Representational Meaning 22 2.3.2 The Interactive Meaning 27 2.3.3 The Compositional Meaning 32 2.4 Previous studies 34 2.5 Summary 36 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 37 3.1 Research Methods 37 3.2 Data Collection 38 3.3 Data Analysis 41 3.4 Procedures 41 3.5 Validity and Reliability 42 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 43 4.1 Findings of Verbal Analysis 43 4.1.1 Affect 47 4.1.2 Judgment 55 4.1.3 Appreciation 63 h 4.1.4 Summary 69 4.2 Findings of Visual Analysis 70 4.2.1 Contact 70 4.2.2 Social Distance 75 4.2.3 Attitude 79 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 87 5.1 Conclusions 87 5.2 Implications 90 5.3 Limitations of the study 91 5.4 Suggestions for further research 91 REFERENCES 92 APPENDIX A APPENDIX B LIST OF TABLES Table Title number 2.1 The monoglossic and the heteroglossic Page 10 2.2 Sub- categories of Affect 16 2.3 Judgement-social esteem 17 2.4 Judgement- social sanction 18 2.5 Types of Appreciation 21 4.1 The general distribution of Affect, Judgment and Appreciation in EFs and VFs 43 4.2 The distribution of sub- categories of Affect in EFs and VFs 47 4.3 Social esteem and Social sanction in EFs and VFs 56 4.4 Sub-categories of Appreciation in EFs and VFs 64 4.5 Frequency of Demand and Offer in EFs and VFs 71 4.6 Demand and Offer in EFs h 72 4.7 Demand and Offer in VFs 73 4.8 Frequency of Social Distance sub-types in EFs and VFs 75 4.9 Sub-types of Social Distance in EFs 77 4.10 Sub-types of Social Distance in VFs 78 4.11 Frequency of Frontal and Oblique in EFs and VFs 79 4.12 Frontal and Oblique in EFs 81 4.13 Frontal and Oblique in VFs 82 4.14 Frequency of types of Vertical angle in EFs and VFs 83 4.15 Types of Vertical angle in EFs 85 4.16 Types of Vertical angle in VFs 86 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Title number 2.1 An overview of Appraisal resources Page Categories in the sub-system of Attitude 13 2.3 Main types of visual representational structure 23 2.4 Geometrical Symbolism process 25 2.5 Interactive Meaning in images 28 2.6 Contact of Offer 29 2.7 Picture taken from long shot 30 2.8 Oblique angle 31 2.9 High angle 32 4.1 Frequency of Attitude in EFs and VFs 44 4.2 Sub- categories of Affect in EFs and VFs 48 4.3 Positive and Negative Affect in EFs and VFs 53 4.4 Sub- categories of Judgment in EFs and VFs 57 4.5 Positive and Negative Judgment values in EFs and VFs 61 4.6 Sub-categories of Appreciation in EFs and VFs 64 4.7 Positive and Negative Appreciation values in EFs and VFs 67 4.8 Frequency of Demand and Offer in EFs and VFs 71 h 2.2