Nghiên cứu giao tiếp giao văn hóa về hành động nói đùa giữa bạn bè vả người thân trong hai nền văn hóa việt và văn hóa anh

ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLES AND FINGURES

Table of contents

PART A: INTRODUCTION

PART B - DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

1.1 Cross-cultural communication

1.1.1 What is culture?

1.1.2 Cross-cultural communication.

1.2 Speech acts

1.2.1 Definition of speech acts

1.2.2 Classifications of speech acts

1.3 Joking as a speech act

1.3.1 Definition of joke

1.3.2 Joke as a speech act

1.4 English sense of humour

1.4.1 Sense of humour

1.4.2 English sense of humour

1.5 Joking in English and Vietnamese culture

1.5.1 Laughter in everyday life

1.5.2 Joking in English and Vietnamese

CHAPTER II: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

2.1 Description of the questionnaires

2.2 Description of the subjects

2.3 Data analysis

2.3.1 The informants’ awareness of the sense of humour and joking

2.3.2 Means realized in telling joke

2.3.3 Use of means in joking as seen from communicating partners’ parameters

2.3.4 Use of means in telling jokes as seen from informants’ parameters

2.5 Major similarities and differences findings between English and Vietnamese

2.5.1 Similarities

2.5.2 Differences

2.6 Some implications in using humour in the teaching foreign language

Part C. CONCLUSION

References

APENDICES