tailieunhanh - Báo cáo " An analysis of prominent grammatical cohesive devices in online news discourse in English by Vietnamese translators "

Nowadays, online newspaper has drawn the increasing attention of the public. In Vietnam, online newspapers, especially those in foreign languages, have played an important role in providing information for foreign affairs. Through investigating thirty online news discourses updated on five online newspapers in English by Vietnamese translators, the author found that many grammatical cohesive devices have been used in online news discourses. However, the frequency of occurrence of grammatical cohesive devices is different from each others. . | VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 26 2010 51-59 An analysis of prominent grammatical cohesive devices in online news discourse in English by Vietnamese translators Ngo Thi Tuyet Nhung English Department Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper 381 Doi Can streets Ba Dinh Hanoi Vietnam Received 4 February 2009 Abstract. Nowadays online newspaper has drawn the increasing attention of the public. In Vietnam online newspapers especially those in foreign languages have played an important role in providing information for foreign affairs. Through investigating thirty online news discourses updated on five online newspapers in English by Vietnamese translators the author found that many grammatical cohesive devices have been used in online news discourses. However the frequency of occurrence of grammatical cohesive devices is different from each others. Discourse analysis of grammatical cohesive devices in online news discourse in English by Vietnamese translators can help translators a lot in translating online news from Vietnamese into English correctly and coherently and help readers especially foreigners easily catch up with the translator s message on online news discourse in English that is much affected by Vietnamese the translator s mother tongue. 1. Introduction In recent years together with the development of technology especially Internet there has been an increasing need for getting information in English on mass media including online newspapers. Reading online news discourse in English by Vietnamese translators has been a great interest for many readers especially those who want to study more about Vietnam. In order to help these readers to understand more clearly about online news in English by Vietnamese translators the author has conducted an analysis on prominent employed grammatical cohesive devices as cohesion is concerned with formal structures to Tel. 84-912663322. E-mail tuyetnhungcpv@ interact with underlying semantic relations