NEGATIVE POLITENESS STRATEGY IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE

Politeness strategies are preferably used in most Englishspeaking contexts. They are for expressing politeness towards the hearers. Therefore, they are essential in establishing and maintaining relationship between speakers. Research in second language suggests that specific politeness strategy is p[r]

1. Rationale for the research
We are now living in the time of unstoppable development of the world in which international cooperation in general and cultural, educational exchanges in particular are vigorously promoted. In fact, learning foreign languages, especially English, has played an increasi[r]

TRANSCRIPTEPISODE 16: GLASS ARTISTHello. I’m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.Today we’re going to look at how English users indicate negative meanings. One ofthe ways we can do that is with the word ‘not’.And we’re going to hear a glass artist[r]

Thomson and Martinet (1986), in A practical English Grammar (4thed.), payattention to the inversion of the verb after certain adverbs such as: hardly…when, inno circumstances, no sooner…than and so on. Along with these, they also givesome notes in doing exercises w[r]

Thuật ngữ Lâm nghiệp (Việt Anh; Anh Việt): Dùng cho sinh viên, học viên Trường Đại học Lâm nghiệp tra cứu các thuật ngữ trong quá trình học tập và công tác.
Forestry Dictionary (Vietnamese English; English Vietnamese): Using for learning and working of students, trainees in Vietnam forestry Univ[r]

Although L2 pragmatic competence is essential in intercultural communication, many studies show that most of language learners, even those with advanced grammatical competence, lack necessary knowledge of performing speech acts in the target language. Lack of L2 pragmatic knowledge has led to pragma[r]

BIGINused to analyze common and distinct semantic features of the EnglishENGLISHadjectives denoting ‘Big’ with their meanings in Vietnamese.In order to analyze adjectives denoting ‘Big’ in Englishsemantically, the study is based on the theories of Greenbaum andQuir[r]

English has been considered “an international language” since it helps people all over the world get access to various kinds of information in different fields, especially in business and technology where information is updated every hour, even every minute. Therefore, English has taken a prior part[r]

Contrary to popular view, proper names translation is a nontrivial question. Many scholars and translators claim that proper names do not need to be translated, especially names of literary characters. However, proper names are not noninformative; they include a lot of useful information and help to[r]

English has been considered “an international language” since it helps people all over the world get access to various kinds of information in different fields, especially in business and technology where information is updated every hour, even every minute. Therefore, English has taken a prior part[r]

VNU Journal of Science: Foreign Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2015) 25-36Expressing Satisfaction in American English and Vietnamese(as Seen from the Categorical Dimension ofDirectness-Indirectness)Nguyễn Thị Thùy Linh*Faculty of English, VNU University of Languages a[r]

Equivalence is one of the crucial issues in translation studies that have constantly received much attention of researchers since the birth of translation studies. Translation equivalence is linked to both linguistic and cultural aspects; however, in the thesis, equivalence is studied in the relatio[r]

other words, it is the process of encoding the experiential meaning. This starts at the context inwhich the writer forms the experience about an affair perhaps by observing, hearing, or watching,etc. Then, he realizes its meaning through the suitable choice of a configuration in language: ace[r]

This study examines the use of safeguards or protective behaviours by young adults to
reduce the harm and negative consequences associated with excessive alcohol
consumption. Participants were 210 Australian university students. Participants
completed an online questionnaire which focused on their a[r]

The study undertakes an investigation of idioms in English and Vietnamese in terms of structural and semantic components. There are three foci: (1) similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms in terms of structural components; (2) similarities and differences between English a[r]

1. Rationale
INTRODUCTION
I have finished the MA course in English linguistics, and it is time for me to complete the final
thesis which partly shows what I have got from this very useful programme. There are many
things to write about but I choose to study on Relative clauses in English and i[r]

The principle objectives of this research are to figure out the types of speech acts and politeness strategies used as well as their frequency in business response letters. From that, the effects of the speech acts and politeness strategies in conveying the Writers’ messages are analyzed.
The resea[r]

In the light of theoretical background of speech act, politeness in the light of crosscultural communication, this study investigates the cultural transfer on the way Vietnamese students of English offer English invitations.
Data in this study are gathered via questionnaires. For the purpose of inv[r]

In the light of theoretical background of speech act, politeness in the light of crosscultural communication, this study investigates the cultural transfer on the way Vietnamese students of English offer English invitations.
Data in this study are gathered via questionnaires. For the purpose of inv[r]

Addressing terms in English and Vietnamese So sánh đối chiếu
Addressing terms in English and Vietnamese So sánh đối chiếu
Addressing terms in English and Vietnamese So sánh đối chiếu
Addressing terms in English and Vietnamese So sánh đối chiếu
Addressing terms in English and Vietnamese So sánh đối c[r]