tailieunhanh - Master thesis in the English language: A discourse analysis on prefaces in English and Vietnamese

Identify and describe some discourse features of preface in English and Vietnamese; find out differences and similarities between EPs and VPs, in terms of thematisation, layout, syntactic structures, lexical features and cohesive devices. | 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG PHAN TH O MY 2 The thesis has been completed at the College of Foreign Languages, University of Danang. Supervisor: Nguy n Th Quỳnh Hoa, . Examiner 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lưu Quí Khương Examiner 2: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tr n Văn Phư c A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON PREFACES IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE Field: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Code: MASTER THESIS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (SUMMARY) Danang, 2012 The thesis was defended at the Examining Committee. Time: 17/ 04/ 2012 Venue: University of Danang The original of thesis is accessible for the purpose of reference at the College of Foreign Languages Library, and the Information Resources Center, Danang University. 3 4 Chapter 1 and Vietnamese prefaces to help learners overcome the difficulties in INTRODUCTION writing prefaces and improve their writing skill at the discourse level. . STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM . JUSTIFICATION In the last few decades, the world has seen an explosion of There is, to some extent, no dout that books have a strong information and a revolution of high technology. Everyone has impact on many of us. Reading books is important for language opportunities to achieve information in different ways. In that trend, learners in general and students of English in particular. Learning the mass media in general and the internet in particular has made a English through books is believed to be a great help for both the great breakthrough in the development. Whatever happens, the reading and the writing skill. Along with the present globalization requirement for reading books is sharly on the rise. People read trend, a large number of books in different fields are published in books not only for information, but for evaluating events, sharing English. Reading English books may become a routine of a majority opinions and entertaining as well. These purposes are clearly shown of people in the near future. Therefore, a .