LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY IN HUMOROUS HEADLINES IN ENGLISH ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS

TRANG 53 Types of word English Vietnamese Triggering word 12.5% 7.5% Verb 50% 30% Proper noun 92.5% 77.5% Adjective 90% 72.5% Pronoun 20% 5% TABLE 4.2: LEXICAL CHOICES IN ENGLISH AND VIE[r]

Shakespeare, the Queen, village inns, English folk dancing, English castles, and fish chips wrapped in newspapers.. English folk dancing, English castles, and fish chips wrapped in newsp[r]

“In 50 years, what we believe now will look just as quaint.” ”LUCY” IS THE BEST KNOWN TRANG 39 Spend any amount of time reading about human evolution, and you’ll come across the terms _h[r]

TRANG 1 FROM THE EDITORS’ DESKS JUNE 2011 EASE GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES TO BE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH 2 GUIDELINES APPENDICES 7 Abstracts 8 Ambiguity 9 [r]

Why do all these people learn English ? It’s not difficult to answer this question. Ma ny boys and girls learn English at school because it is one of their subjects. Many adults learn English because it is useful for their work. Teenagers often learn English[r]

Structural Features Features in this category tar-get primarily content selection and influence appro-priate choice at the field level: Field bigrams/trigrams Analogously to the lexical [r]

Our approach first identifies adjacency pairs using maximum entropy ranking based on a set of lexical, durational, and structural features that look both forward and backward in the disc[r]

Translation of English economic news always draws attention from students of English as a second language and from translators who are working for newspapers as well. And equivalence in translation is one of the factors to which people above should attach great importance. In this study, the transla[r]

SCOPE OF THE STUDY This study concentrates on the investigation of some linguistic features of news items on bird flu in English electronic newspapers in terms of structure of news, lexi[r]

In order to drill writing skills, I have tried to read famous novels of distinguished America and English writers.. I enjoy the humorous style of writing in Mark TRANG 5 style of George [r]

Books and talks about other people’s culture can even be dangerous because they concentrate on cultural differences and exaggerate national character, and sometimes a lot of information they contain is untrue.
In a study recently carried out in Britain, people w[r]

III. Reading comprehension:
A. Read the passage and answer the questions: (2pts)
English is a very useful language. If we know English, we can go to any countries we like. We will not find it hard to make people understand what we want to say. English also helps us t[r]

Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.. According to the writer.[r]

Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.. According to the writer.[r]

Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.. According to the writer.[r]

Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.. English is useful only to adults C.[r]