Danh hóa trong các bài báo của tạp chí educational studies phân tích theo quan điểm chức năng hệ thống

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ***** PHẠM THÚY MAI NOMINALIZATION IN ARTICLES OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (Danh hóa báo tạp chí Educational Studies: Phân tích theo quan điểm chức hệ thống) M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English linguistics Code: 60220201 HANOI – 2015 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ***** PHẠM THÚY MAI NOMINALIZATION IN ARTICLES OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (Danh hóa báo tạp chí Educational Studies: Phân tích theo quan điểm chức hệ thống) M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English linguistics Code: 60220201 Supervisor: Nguyễn Thị Minh Tâm, PhD HANOI – 2015 DECLARATION I hereby state that I (Pham Thuy Mai, from Group K22C), being a candidate for the degree of Master of Arts accept the requirements of the University relating to the retention and use of Master’s Graduation Paper deposited in the library In terms of these conditions, I agree that the origin of my paper deposited in the library should be accessible for the purpose of study and research, in accordance with the normal conditions established by the librarians for the care, loan or reproduction of the paper Pham Thuy Mai i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is my pleasure to thank those who made this thesis possible Firstly, I owe my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Mrs Nguyen Thi Minh Tam, whose encouragement, guidance and support from the initial to the final level enabled me to develop an understanding of the subject Secondly, I am truly grateful to the teachers in Faculty of Post-graduate Studies, ULIS, VNU for their devotion to provide me with a strong foundation for my knowledge Last but not least, I am heartily thankful to my family – my parents and my sister, and my close friend Nguyen Mai Le who supported me in any respect during the completion of the study ii ABSTRACT Nominalization is a prevalent linguistic phenomenon in English, especially in English writing As a universal characteristic of human language, nominalization has attracted interests of many linguists Basing on the theory of functional grammar developed by Halliday, this thesis aims at investigating how nominalization is realized in the articles of Educational Studies With the corpus of research articles extracted from the journal Educational Studies, the author has made an attempt to show the distribution of nominalization in the articles and carry out an analysis in terms of ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions Additionally, the paper tries to examine the possible effects of nominalization in academic discourses The author hopes that this paper will yield some insights and contribute to the studies of grammatical metaphor In addition, implications for teaching and translating academic discourses would be offered in this thesis iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration ……………………………………………………………………… i Acknowledgements ……………………………………………………………… ii Abstract ………………………………………………………………………… iii Table of contents ………………………………………………………………… iv List of abbreviations …………………………………………………………… vi List of tables and figures ………………………………………………………… vii PART A: INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………… 1 Rationale ……………………………………………………………………… Aims of the study …………………………………………………………… Scope of the study …………………………………………………………… Significance of the study ……………………………………………………… Design of the study …………………………………………………………… PART B: DEVELOPMENT ………………………………………………… CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1.1 Nominalization ……………………………………………………………… 1.1.1 Notion of nominalization ………………………………………… 1.1.2 Nominalization classification ……………………………………… 1.1.3 Nominalization in the view of Systemic Functional Grammar and as grammatical metaphor ………………………………………………… 13 1.2 Related studies ……………………………………………………………… 17 CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY …………………………………………… 19 2.1 Corpus compilation ………………………………………………………… 19 2.2 Data collection procedure ………………………………………………… iv 19 2.2.1 Data analyzing instruments and methods ………………………… 20 2.2.2 Analytical framework ………………………………………… 20 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ……………………………… 23 3.1 Realization of nominalization in the five articles of Educational Studies … 23 3.1.1 Distribution of nominalization …………………………………… 23 3.1.2 Distribution of nominalization subtypes ………………………… 24 3.1.3 Nominalization in terms of ideational metafunction ……………… 25 3.1.4 Nominalization in terms of interpersonal metafunction ………… 27 3.1.5 Nominalization in terms of textual metafunction ………………… 29 3.2 Possible effects of nominalization ………………………………………… 32 3.2.1 Creating objectivity ……………………………………………… 32 3.2.2 Enhancing conciseness …………………………………………… 33 3.2.3 Creating formality ………………………………………………… 34 3.2.4 Enhancing cohesion ……………………………………………… 36 3.3 Summary …………………………………………………………………… 36 PART C: CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS ………………………… 37 Recapitulation ………………………………………………………………… 37 Implications for teaching and translating English academic writing ………… 37 2.1 Teaching English academic writing ………………………………… 37 2.2 Translating English academic discourse …………………………… 38 Limitations and suggestions for further studies ……………………………… 38 REFERENCES ………………………………………………………………… 40 APPENDIX APPENDIX v LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS DA: De-adjectival nominalization DV: De-verbal nominalization CV: Conversion THAT: That clause WH: Wh clause TO: To-infinitive clause VING: Ving clause Eg: Example vi LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Page Table 1: Classification of nominalization 21 Table 2: Distribution of nominalization 23 Table 3: Ideational realization of nominalization 25 Figure 1: Types of process in English 13 Figure 2: Analysis in terms of transitivity 14 Figure 3a: Analysis of metaphorical form 14 Figure 3b: Analysis of congruent form 14 Figure 4: Analysis in terms of mood 15 Figure 5: Analysis in terms of theme 15 Figure 6: Analysis in terms of transitivity, mood and theme 22 Figure 7: Distribution of nominalization subtypes 24 Figure 8: Interpersonal realization of nominalization 27 Figure 9: Textual realization of nominalization 29 vii PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale Nominalization is a prevalent linguistic phenomenon that is commonte that MacMurray‟s notion of the future … school discipline particularly limitations education TO DA DA THAT Identifier Range Range Verbiage Complement Complement Complement Complement Rheme Rheme Rheme Rheme THAT Phenomenon Complement Rheme DV DV Range Complement Circumstance Adjunct Rheme Rheme XCVIII ... INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ***** PHẠM THÚY MAI NOMINALIZATION IN ARTICLES OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (Danh hóa báo tạp chí Educational Studies: Phân. .. STUDIES: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (Danh hóa báo tạp chí Educational Studies: Phân tích theo quan điểm chức hệ thống) M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English linguistics Code: 60220201 Supervisor:... linguists Basing on the theory of functional grammar developed by Halliday, this thesis aims at investigating how nominalization is realized in the articles of Educational Studies With the corpus