(Luận văn thạc sĩ) an investigation into three metafunctions in inspiration stories videos of jay shetty

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY NGUYỄN THỊ THANH HIỀN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THREE METAFUNCTIONS IN INSPIRATION STORIES h VIDEOS OF JAY SHETTY MASTER THESIS IN ENGLISH Binh Dinh, 2020 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY NGUYỄN THỊ THANH HIỀN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THREE METAFUNCTIONS IN INSPIRATION STORIES VIDEOS OF JAY SHETTY h Field: English Linguistics Code: 22 02 01 Supervisor: Assoc Prof Dr Nguyễn Thị Thu Hiền BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN NGUYỄN THỊ THANH HIỀN CÁC SIÊU CHỨC NĂNG CỦA NGÔN NGỮ THỂ HIỆN TRONG CÁC VIDEO CỦA JAY SHETTY h Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số: 22 02 01 Người hướng dẫn: PGS.TS Nguyễn Thị Thu Hiền I STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I certify that this thesis with the title “An Investigation into Three Metafunctions in Inspiration Stories Videos of Jay Shetty” is entirely my own original work In addition, I emphasize that this thesis has not been submitted for any purposes in any materials Any works of other authors consulted in this thesis are listed in the reference Quy Nhon, 2020 NGUYỄN THỊ THANH HIỀN h II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is impossible for me to complete this thesis in time without the huge support and assistance of all individuals around me First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my supervisor, Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, who has devoted her time and effort to giving guidance and valuable comments for me in spite of her huge workload Without her patience, encouragement and immese knowledge, my master thesis could not have been done Secondly, I am deeply grateful to all lecturers not only from Quy Nhon University (QNU) but also from other universities for their whole-hearted contribution to sharpening my academic knowledge during the previous semesters h Thirdly, I expect to express my warmest thanks to the cooperation and support of the Department of Postgraduate Training and the Department of Foreign Languages of QNU Last but not least, my special thanks are given to my beloved family and my friends who has always given me their encouragements to motivate and assist me during the course and the period of doing this thesis Quy Nhon, 2020 III ABSTRACT This thesis is carried out with an aim to explore the three linguistic metafunctions of Inspiration Stories Videos of Jay Shetty based on Systemic Functional Grammar developed by Halliday In details, the study deals with realizing the three metafunctions including experiential metafunction, interpersonal metafunction and textual metafunction of the language in the videos Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to serve the process conducting this research In this study, twenty-five Inspiration Stories Videos of Jay Shetty with various topics, each of which lasts no more than minutes, are under investigation The findings from the study are related to the three metafunctions identified in the chosen videos of Jay Shetty More specifically, in experiential metafunction, that relational process and material process are more dominant than other processes in the data proves that Jay’s video h language is used to depict a picture of his outer world experience and to show the relationship of the entities in the stories As for interpersonal metafunction, declarative mood is employed with the higher proportion than imperative and interrogative moods in the clauses in IVoJ, which means language of the video is used to give information rather than to ask the viewers for the action or the reply Regarding textual metafunction, unmarked topical theme is the most frequently used theme type among the others Hopefully, the results of this study may contribute to confirming the findings in previous studies related to functional grammar and becoming a useful material for teachers and learners who are interested in studying English IV TABLE OF CONTENT STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II ABSTRACT III TABLE OF CONTENT IV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS VI LIST OF TABLES VII LIST OF FIGURES VIII CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale 1.2 Aim and Objectives 1.2.1 Aim of the Study 1.2.2 Objectives of the Study h 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Scope of the Study 1.5 Significance of the Study 1.6 Organization of the Study CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Systemic Functional Grammar 2.1.1 Ideational Metafunction 2.1.2 Interpersonal Metafunction 12 2.1.3 Textual Metafunction 14 2.2 The application of SFG in Discourse Analysis 15 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 19 3.1 Research Methods 19 3.2 Data Collection and Description 19 V 3.3 Data Analysis 20 3.4 Research Procedures 21 3.5 Reliability and Validity of the Study 21 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 23 4.1 Experiential metafunction in IVoJ 23 4.1.1 Process types 24 4.1.2 Circumstances 41 4.2 Interpersonal metafunction in IVoJ 47 4.2.1 Mood system in IVoJ 47 4.2.2 Modality system in IVoJ 53 4.3 Textual metafunction in IVoJ 61 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 68 5.1 Conclusions 68 h 5.2 Implications 69 5.3 Limitations and suggestions for further researches 70 REFERENCES 71 APPENDICES I APPENDIX A DATA: LIST OF 25 INSPIRATION STORIES VIDEOS OF JAY SHETTY i APPENDIX B SAMPLE ANALYSIS iii VI LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS SFG Systemic Functional Grammar IVoJ Inspiration Stories Videos of Jay Shetty h VII LIST OF TABLES Table Title number Page number Types of circumstances 11 2.2 System of types of modality 13 4.1 The frequency of modality in IVoJ 53 4.2 Occurrence of modal verbs in IVoJ 54 4.3 Occurrence of modal adjuncts in IVoJ 58 4.4 Occurrence of Unmarked and Marked Themes in h 2.1 61 IVoJ 4.5 Occurrence of Interpersonal and Textual Themes in IVoJ 64