theoretical knowledge on english words and word formation processes

... Halliday, M.A.K and Hasan, K.R., (1976), Cohesion in English, London: Longman Group Ltd 13 Halliday, M.A.K., (1985), An Introduction to Functional Grammar, London: Arnold 42 14 Hatim and Mason (1990), ... both English writers and Vietnamese ones First, in terms of transitivity, material processes are considered the most powerful and effective; relational processes rank the second in both English and ... lexical, conjunction, reference, and ellipsis and substitution Table 8.1: Cohesion in Vietnamese letters Types of cohesive relation Lexical Cohesion Conjunction Reference Ellipsis Substitution Quantity...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... of Economic Export Contracts in English and Vietnamese 44 4.3.1 The Use of Clear and Concise Words of Economic Export Contracts in English and Vietnamese 45 4.3.1.1 In English ... Positive and Negative Words of Economic Export Contracts in English and Vietnamese 59 4.3.5.1 Positive Words 59 4.3.5.2 Negative Words 61 4.4 Syntactic Features in English and ... Contracts in English and Vietnamese 43 Table 4.3: A Comparison of the Ending between Economic Export Contracts in English and Vietnamese 43 Table 4.4: The Use of Words in English and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... 4.2.3 Reduplication of Synonyms, Near-synonyms and Relevant Words Another typical feature of collective agreements is joining together words or phrases with the conjunctions and and “or” such ... instruments and purposes for words “between X (the name of the employer) and Y (the name of the union)” and sometimes included their logo and the effective duration in the form of “month day, year to month ... Findings and Discussions - To find out the similar and different features of ECAs and VCAs of these above aspects o Chapter Conclusions and Implications CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:30

... Ortony and Turner (1990), which demonstrates the theorists and their classification of the basic human emotions ANDREW ORTONY AND TERENCE J TURNER ANDREW ORTONY AND TERENCE J TURNER A Selection ... Human Emotions, Plenum Press, New York Jackson H., Amvela E Z (2000), Words, Meanings and Vocabulary, London Cassell, London Kovecses Z (2003), Metaphor and emotion: language, culture, and body ... second chapter It is concerned with semantic features of English idioms describing fear and its comparison with Vietnamese ones Conclusion: which includes Recapitulation, Concluding Remarks, and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17

... limitations of N-V conversion  Factors inhibiting the production of N-V conversion  Construction of meaning during N-V conversion  Connection between N-V conversion and derivation  Relation between ... limitations The study lacks of discussion of semantic limitation of N-V conversion, of factors inhibiting the production of N-V conversion, and of construction of meaning during N-V conversion The connection ... conversion and metaphor, metonymy  Different classifications of denominal verbs of N-V conversion  The functions of N-V conversion This study is an effort concerning with N-V conversion in English...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:18

... Relational process, Behavioral Processes, Verbal Processes and Existential Processes The textual meta-function is concerned with the creation of text with the presentation of ideational and interpersonal ... lexical reiteration Semantic connection Conjunction Reference, substitution and ellipsis are clearly grammatical; lexical cohesion, as the name implies, lexical Conjunction is on the borderline ... cohesion, or the ties and connections which exist within a text Halliday and Hasan (1976) also define cohesion in a similar way: “The concept of cohesion is a semantic one; it refers to relations...

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2016, 21:26

... semantic and cultural characteristics of English and Vietnamese idioms denoting work Chapter 4- Findings and Discussion Chapter 5- Conclusions and Implications - Provide Vietnamese learners of English ... in English and Vietnamese? “Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms”, by Cowie (1994), “Idioms Organizer”, by Wright.J (1992), “ Idiom Structure in English London by Strasler.J(1976) and some ones ... describe an containing comparison words She gives out the similarities and image, a phenomenon, a characteristic, or a state” differences in syntax and semantics fields of English and Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16

... of action and freedom (Longman Dictionary Online) from imposition Politeness is one of the most popular branches of (b) Positive face: the positive consistent self-image or ‘personality’ contemporary ... that differs from the conversational norms and politeness [6], [20] In conclusion, the expression of dispraise always has both negative and positive facets Constructive and honest dispraise helps ... between English and Vietnamese for avoidance of culture shock and communication breakdown 5 1.2.2 Objectives - To find out the common strategies of RD in English and in Vietnamese - To compare and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

... meanings of English and Vietnamese weather words - Find out and explain the similarities and differences of words denoting weather in English and Vietnamese 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 2.1 LITERATURE ... Introduction the world.” [21, p156] Chapter 2: Literature review and theoretical background Chapter 3: Methods and Procedures Chapter 4: The findings and discussions Chapter 5: Conclusions and Implications ... interesting and concrete ones in order to illustrate the important semantic features of words denoting weather in English and points under our investigation Vietnamese 3.5 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:23

... greatly in English and help their study of English become easier their specific meanings, collocational preferences, and register 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY distributions In other words, ... and Procedures However, the syntactic and semantic features of CVs, especially the CHAPTER - Findings and Discussion RCVs, as well as a comparison between English RCVs and CHAPTER - Conclusions ... the verb and they are used to characteristics of things and nature That can combine with preceding denote the changing of a thing words hãy, ñ ng, ch and with following words r i, xong and normally...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:23

... features in common with Vietnamese idioms, English idioms expressing anger have their 23 24 CHAPTER learners’ Vietnamese and English learning English and Vietnamese CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS as a ... ñá… mechanisms of English and Vietnamese idioms expressing anger, we often base on real-world situation, history allusion and cultural background In addition, both English and Vietnamese idioms ... arranged in Findings and Discussions; Chapter is the Conclusions and alphabetical order with clear explanations and examples extracted Implications from Vietnamese novels, newspapers and magazines Moreover,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:24

... functional constituents and formal constituents 2.2.3.3 Prepositional Phrases common words Idioms are composed of words however they are not A prepositional phrase comprises a preposition as ... Denoting Family Relationship between husbands and wives Relationship between parents and children Relationship of siblings Other relationships Home and house Situations and lifestyles Total 46 ... in English and 13 14 - analyzing English and Vietnamese idioms denoting family in Table 4.1 Noun Phrase structures of English and Vietnamese FIs term of syntactic and semantic features and contrastive...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:28

... Similarities and differences of using passive voice in English and Vietnamese Chapter III: Suggestions and implications Part C: Conclusion gives a recapitulation of the study and some suggestions for ... The research is confined to the description, analysis and comparison of the function, forms and meanings of the passive voice in English and Vietnamese, which makes a ontribution to the improvement ... who concern in this area of English language and wish to go further on this matter 32 REFERENCE Alxander, L.G.(1988) Longman English Grammar Longman Group Ltd Arar, B.S (1999) Understanding and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:03

... differences between the formation of plural nouns in English and in Vietnamese 36 Chapter two:The formation of plural nouns in English and Vietnamese equivalents In English, the English number system ... the intergration process, English is a mean to communicate and exchange information, culture, technology and science among countries Hence, learning English has become a great demand of most people ... theories and various examples from reference books and on the internet That are the ways I study my graduation paper Scope of the study Studying on the formation of the plural nouns in English and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 17:10

... definitions of Brown and Levison and Leech are convenient and acceptable, because each one describes this process and captured this phenomenon from both sides: 'individually' (the first one), and ... situation and 4; strategy includes situation 8, and strategy consists of situation 1, 2, 5, and 1.2.1 Getting attention In situation 3, to ask the professor a couple of questions, the Vietnamese and ... default values” (Escandell-Vidal 1996: 643) The culture-specific meanings and politeness functions conventionally associated with certain expressions and grammatical constructions in a given language...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 18:51

... geographic location, living habits, culture, customs, religious belief and so on 23 24 CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 5.1 CONCLUSIONS (as) quick as a wink, like a shot, etc in English and is superior ... Simile and Hyperbole, make languages more figurative, interesting and lively and demonstrate ways of thinking and observing the world of English and Vietnamese people In addition, both English and ... Chapter is Findings and Discussions; Chapter is the Conclusions and Implications 2.2.1 Definitions of Idioms In David Crystal’s opinion [18, p.181], “Idiom is a term in grammar and lexicography...

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2016, 18:40

... applied linguistics Longman, London 21 Tallerman M (1998), Understanding Syntax Arnold publishers, London 22 Valin, R D Van and Randy J L (1997) Syntax-structure, meaning and function Cambridge University ... Implications and recommendations is a practical application one because the outcome of the contrastive analysis will be used to improve English Vietnamese translation of trend description as well ... English trend descriptions are worth being paid attention to as well There is a variety of words and expressions to denote the movements, which adds much color into a piece of news In addition,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... marked and non-native like discourse, possibly leading to rejection by publishers and a consequent brake on career advancement in the case of academic economist, and greater difficulty in understanding ... conceptual level a failure to assimilate the new to the already existing Many of todays standard meaning of words and expressions began as metaphors, and their utility has made them conventional ... evocative one, and useful in making an abstract concept more concrete, Henderson does not see its power as going beyond illustration A more generative metaphor is the idea of supply and demand forces...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58

... clausal ellipsis VFRs only contain nominal ellipsis with the lowest rate 4.4.1.4 Conjunction in EFRs and VFRs Table 4.16 Conjunction in EFRs and VFRs ELLIPSIS CONJUNCTION Type Nominal Ellipsis ... 614) and with Vietnamese reference there is no distinction among personal pronoun, possesive pronouns and possessive determiners Moreover, in VFRs there is no distinction among kinds of personal ... u Cao Thùy Dương l n ñ u ñóng phim ñã th Type Additive Conjunction Adversative Conjunction Causal Conjunction Temporal Conjunction TOTAL English Occ Rate 142 7.8% 129 7.1% 15 0.8% 12 0.7% 298...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... poverty and usually dominated In contrast, the English use Black to mention black people with an implicature of racial discrimination CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATION 5.1 CONCLUSION In fact, in Chapter One, ... attitude in connotative and social meaning in daily communication 2.2.4 Types of Word 2.2.4.1 Simple Words: are largely monosyllabic For example: go, white… 2.2.4.2 Complex Words: contain one or more ... adjective Black in English and Đen in Vietnamese in compound words, collocation and idiomatic phrases The contrastive analysis is based on the source language of English in contrast to Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:29