(Luận văn thạc sĩ) an investigation into attitudinal resources in english love short stories

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY PHITSAKHONE TANSAVATH AN INVESTIGATION INTO ATTITUDINAL RESOURCES IN ENGLISH LOVE SHORT STORIES Field: English Language Code: 8.22.02.01 h Supervisor: Võ Duy Đức, Ph.D BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN PHITSAKHONE TANSAVATH NGHIÊN CỨU NGHĨA THÁI ĐỘ TRONG CHUYỆN NGẮN TÌNH YÊU TRONG TIẾNG ANH h Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số: 8.22.02.01 Người hướng dẫn: Võ Duy Đức, Ph.D i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP Except where reference is made in the text of the research paper, this thesis “ An Investigation into Attitudinal Resources in English love short stories” contain no material published elsewhere or extracted in the whole, or in part from paper by which I have qualified for or been award another degree or diploma Moreover, no one’s work has been used without acknowledgement in the paper This paper has not been submitted for the award of any degree or diploma in any other territory institution h Binh Dinh, June 2019 Phitsakhone TANSAVATH ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are many who deserve recognition here for their contributions to this work First, I would like to acknowledge my deep indebtedness to my supervisor, Doctor Võ Duy Đức for his enthusiastic guidance and valuable suggestions Without his immense help, I would never have completed my thesis I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of my professors at Quy Nhon University for their useful lectures that provided a solid foundation for me to carry out the study Lastly, I am deeply grateful to my friends who gave me great encouragement and interesting discussions as well as all of the member of my family for their love, understanding and support h iii ABSTRACT The study aims to examine attitudinal resources used in English love short stories Appraisal Theory developed by Martin and White (2005) was employed as a framework to analyze thirty English love short stories The data was mainly collected from Chobir Dokan and Success of Life, which are blogs about love, friendship, and life The combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was applied for the data analysis The findings show that Affect resources are used the most in the stories, followed by Judgment and finally Appreciation The findings also show that implicit judgment on human behavior depicted in the English love short story occurs more frequently than explicit one The study makes some theoretical and practical contribution to language learning, teaching and translating practices h iv TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii ABSTRACT III 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 1.2.2 Objectives 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY h 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.1.1 Systemic Functional Linguistics 2.1.2 Appraisal Theory 2.1.3 Attitude 2.1.3.1 Affect 2.1.3.2 Judgment 10 2.1.3.3 Appreciation 13 2.1.4 Engagement 15 2.1.5 Graduation 16 2.2 PREVIOUS STUDIES 18 2.3 SUMMARY 20 CHAPTER METHODS AND PROCEDURES 21 v 3.1 RESEARCH METHODS 21 3.2 DESCRIPTION OF DATA 21 3.3 DATA ANALYSIS 22 3.4 RESEARCH PROCEDURES 22 3.5 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY 23 CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 24 4.1 GENERAL FEATURES OF ARS IN ENGLISH LOVE SHORT STORIES (ELSSS) 24 4.2 ARS OF AFFECT 25 4.2.1 Dis/Inclination 26 4.2.2 Un/Happiness 29 4.2.3 In/Security 33 4.2.4 Dis/Satisfaction 35 4.3 ARS OF JUDGMENT 36 4.3.1 Social Esteem 37 h 4.3.2 Social Sanction 41 4.4 ARS OF APPRECIATION 44 4.4.1 Reaction 45 4.4.2 Composition 49 4.4.3 Valuation 51 CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 54 5.1 CONCLUSIONS 54 5.2 IMPLICATIONS 55 5.3 LIMITATIONS 56 5.4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 56 REFERENCES 58 APPENDIX 60 vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AT: Appraisal Theory SFL: Systemic Function Linguistics ARs: Attitudinal Resources ELSSs: English Love Short Stories h vii LIST OF TABLES Tables Title Number Page number Affect - Dis/Inclination 2.2 Affect - Un/happiness (Martin and White, 2005: 49) 2.3 Affect - In/security 2.4 Affect - Dis/satisfaction 2.5 Judgements of Esteem and Sanction 11 2.6 Types and Sub-types of Judgment 12 2.7 Types of appreciation (Martin and White, 2005: 56) 13 4.1 ARs in thirty short love stories 24 4.2 Affect in the ELSSs 25 4.3 Judgment in ELSSs 36 4.4 Appreciation in ELSSs 44 h 2.1 viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure Title Number Page number 2.1 Sub-system 0f Attitude (Martin & White, 2005:42-58) 15 4.1 ARs of Affect 26 4.2 ARs of Judgment in ELSSs 37 4.3 ARs of Appreciation in ELSSs 44 h