PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
2. Aims of the study
3. Scope of the study
4. Research questions
5. Methodology
6. Contribution of the study
PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT
Chapter I - Passive Voice
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Traditional grammar and passive voice
1.3. Passive from the perspective of transformational - generative
grammar
1.4. Passive voice from the perspective of functional gramma
1.5. What needs to be discussed?
1.6. Passivity in Vietnamese
1.7. Summary
Chapter II - Cognitive Semantics
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Definitions of terms
2.3. Cognition and linguistics
2.4. Cognitive Linguistics
2.5. Major principles of cognitive linguistics
2.6. Cognitive semantics
2.7. Four major notions of cognitive semantics in language analysis
2.8. Summary
Chapter III - Applying Cognitive Semantics
to Analyzing Passive Voice
3.1. Active and Passive Sentences: Two Different Perspectives
3.2. Applying Figure and Ground to analyzing passive sentences
3.3. Implementing frame semantics and encyclopedic semantics
into explaining the acceptability of active – passive alternation
3.4. Summary
Chapter IV - Toward a prototype for passive
structures in Vietnamese
4.1. Introduction
4.2. A review on literature of passivity in Vietnamese
4.3. The term ‘passive’ and how passive voice is defined
4.4. Structures that may cause controversy
4.5. Summary
Chapter V - Integrating major notions of cognitive
semantics in analyzing passivity
5.1. Why broader view?
5.2. Why closer look?
5.3. The key notions having been discussed
5.4. Applying the notions to discussing the structures
5.5. Summary
PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS
1. Recapitulation
2. Implications
2.1. For language learning and teaching
2.2. For language research
3. What has not been dealt with?
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ARTICLES RELATING TO THE THESIS
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