A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE SITCOMS

... contrastive analysis of interpersonal meaning in American and Vietnamese sitcoms based on the framework of systemic functional grammar by M .A. K Halliday Based on eight sitcom episodes of American and Vietnamese, ... analyze the interpersonal meaning conveyed in the dialogues of American and Vietnamese sitcoms in terms of mood, modality and interpersonal grammatical metaphor of mood and modality -To compare... -The qualitative methods were applied for describing and analyzing data to find out features of interpersonal meaning in American and Vietnamese sitcoms Besides, the quantitative approaches were