VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH REPORT THE WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE FUTURITY IN AN ENGLISH LITERARY WORK AND THEIR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION VERSION Team Leader: Nguyễn Minh Tâm ID: 22070334 Class: BEL2022B Hanoi, 04/2024 1 TEAM LEADER INFORMATION I. Student profile - Full name: Nguyen Minh Tam - Date of birth: 20/12/2004 - Place of birth: Hanoi, Vietnam - Class: BEL2022B - Program: Faculty of Applied Linguistics - Address: Van Ha Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi - Phone no. Academic Results (from the first year to now) Academic year Overall score Academic rating 2022-2023 3. Other achievements: Hanoi, April 17th, 2024 Advisor Team Leader (Sign and write fullname) (Sign and write fullname) Hoàng Tuyết Minh Nguyễn Minh Tâm 2 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH REPORT THE WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE FUTURITY IN AN ENGLISH LITERARY WORK AND THEIR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION VERSION SUPERVISOR: Assoc.
Hoang Tuyet Minh TEAM MEMBER No Full name ID Class 1 Nguyễn Minh Tâm 22070334 BEL2022B 2 Vũ Cẩm Ly 22070169 BEL2022C 3 Nguyễn Thiên Hương 22070110 BEL2022B 4 Lê Khánh Xuân 22070296 BEL2022C Hanoi, 4/ 2024 3 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled The ways of expressing the futurity in an English literary work and their Vietnamese translation version submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for research paper in Applied Linguistics. Except where the reference is indicated, no other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the text of the thesis. Hanoi, April, 2024 (Leader’s signature and full name) Nguyễn Minh Tâm Approved by SUPERVISOR Hoàng Tuyết Minh (Signature and full name) Date: 15/04/2024 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS At the beginning, we chose the research topic, we thought this topic would be simple and easy for us. Because it is basically just a list of grammatical structures in English that express future actions and then compare them with the Vietnamese translation.
Thereby, we will systematize the similarities and differences between the two languages in how to express the futurity. When it comes to conduct, we met some difficulties. Luckily, our members still reminded each other to complete the research till reporting. Our perseverance and mutual support in generating innovative ideas have been truly commendable.Furthermore, we acknowledge the foundational documents of earlier research publications, particularly the Master thesis by Lê Thị Biển Xanh (2019), and the insightful viewpoints Tô Minh Thanh's analysis (2022).
These works have provided us with a solid groundwork, enabling us to conduct our study with greater speed, precision, and focus on the core issue. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Ass. Hoang Tuyet Minh for her invaluable guidance and unwavering support that have significantly sharpened and clarified our research points, elevating the quality of our study. Whenever we encounter language problems, she will always encourage us to do what we want because she asserts that the research may be right for one person but wrong for another.
We are also so thankful to our friends, who encouraged us to continue this research and gave us some advice to collect the models. Some people spent so much time helping us to fix data. Your hard-working, beneficial, and mindful contributions have a hand in completing this paper. Lastly, we are grateful for the opportunity to share our research findings with the student community and enhance our language skills.
We are also so thankful to our friends, who encouraged us to continue this research and gave us some advice to collect the models. Thank you for your continued support and encouragement throughout this journey. A B1 comprehensive grammar of the English language. A practical English grammar B2 (4th ed).
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7 ABSTRACT This study would like to indicate ways of expressing futurity in English and make a comparison with Vietnamese translation version. This research form ways of expressing futurity in English in the aspects of grammatical means and lexical means. The study points out the most dominant construction and mostly used by the writer of the literary work to express futurity. This research collects data from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The results from statistical qualitative analysis can show the all constructions expressing futurity in English and their translation in Vietnamese version. This research applies qualitative research to make a statistic of collected data from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Its outcome shows common constructions expressing futurity in English. There are 7 ways extracted from academic English sources, the most popular construction is modal auxiliary Will.
In terms of grammatical means, construction modal auxiliaries make up the most percentage of grammatical means. To lexical means, hope, be sure, want are used more than others. Finally, major futurity expression in English after translated to Vietnamese, the principal constructions are hope (roughly translated as hy vọng, mong rằng in Vietnamese). Similarities of both languages about futurity express are semantic meaning of future shown by a combination of grammatical means and lexical means.
Section of differences are analyzed more detail in this paper. The study simultaneously indicates accompanied factors with futurity expression of characters' utterances. Furthermore, this research discovers that ways of expressing futurity are inherent in temporal concepts frequently through analysis of semantic meaning of grammatical and lexical employment. By identifying similarities and differences between languages, the research contributes to academic understanding and facilitates more accurate communication and translation.
9 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 2. Most common constructions expressing futurity in English. Summary of Futurity Category. Constructions Expressing Futurity in English.
Statistic of Constructions Expressing Futurity in English. Statistic of Meaning of Constructions Expressing Futurity in English. Meanings of Constructions Expressing Futurity and Vietnamese Equivalents41 Table 4. Statistic of Ways of Expressing Futurity in English meaning and their Vietnamese Equivalents.
Frequency of Pre-verbal Elements in English and Vietnamese. A comparison of a syntactic feature of verb phrase in ways of expressing futurity in English and Vietnamese .43 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY .9 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES. 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Aims and objectives.
Methods of the study. Scope of the study. Significance of the study. 16 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.
An overview of tenses. An overview of futurity. Conception and definition. The ways of expressing the futurity in English.
Theoretical framework of study. Comparative and contrastive methods. Methods of the study. Data collection and data analysis procedure .38 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION .1 Ways of expressing futurity in English .1 In terms of their grammatical features.
In terms of their semantic features. Ways of expressing futurity in English and their Vietnamese translation equivalents .1 In terms of their grammatical features. In terms of their semantic features. The similarities and differences of Ways of expressing futurity in English and their Vietnamese translation equivalents.
In terms of their grammatical features. In terms of their semantic meaning. Limitations and suggestions for further studies. 65 APPENDIX 1: COMMON WAYS OF EXPRESSING FUTURITY .65 APPENDIX 2: MEANINGS OF THE MODALS .72 APPENDIX 3: MEANINGS OF MARGINAL AUXILIARIES.
73 APPENDIX 4: STATISTICS OF CONSTRUCTIONS. 74 APPENDIX 6: STATISTIC OF CONTEXTUAL & TEMPORAL CLUES. Rationale Theoretically, English and Vietnamese have their ways of expressing future meaning, even these ways are shown more diversely in literature, based on the readers' view. The ways of futurity expression in English literature are shown by grammatical categories such as modal auxiliaries shall/will + infinitive or tenses (e.
present tense) that can be misleading to render in translation due to the language gap. While expressing the futurity meaning, Vietnamese often use the word "sẽ" linked preceding to verbs or even adjectives. Vietnamese learners can meet some challenges when learning and understanding English in the right way. Nguyen (2015) believes that if considered from the perspective of a learning process, language switching can help learners constantly select and reproduce input knowledge and language structures, etc.
throughout the process of developing interlanguage knowledge. He supplements that If viewed from a language production process, language switching contributes to helping learners restore their knowledge and make efforts to bridge language gaps - an inevitability in the process of learning foreign languages in general, and English in particular. Many confused problems about interpreting English into Vietnamese about futurity expressions, Nguyen (2009) also gives some misleading matters faced by Vietnamese learners about the future meaning when using Will and Be going to to express futurity, or the vague meaning of grammatical ways expressing future time: Future Continuous and Future Perfect Continuous, etc. When studying the subject Theory of English, we have trouble with shades of meaning and we are not able to convert English sentences into Vietnamese smoothly and have the quality of Vietnamese verbals.
There are a lot of factors which are able to the understanding language competencey. 13 To narrow the misleading or misunderstanding of meaning when reading English literature, our study carries out the research in one of seven famous fantasy novels named Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Moreover, specific to J. Rowling's work, the magical and fantastical elements present unique challenges in translation, where the conventional expressions of futurity might take on different connotations or be used in creative ways that are not commonly addressed in translation studies.
Events that are directly tied to the future, require insight and clear future direction, thus saying "will do" sounds simple but it can indicate more than that. The loss of fully understanding the future meaning is parallel to the misleading of the future expressions in Vietnamese based on semantic and syntactic features. On the other hand, there are numerous ways to describe the futurity in English, but they are not popular, and the in- depth research has nearly not covered in depth many concerns and features of comprehending the future tense. As a result, there is a lack of fundamental information, which leads to misinterpretation and challenges your ability to comprehend.
In addition to vocabulary like some previous studies mentioned above, this project delves into the comparisons of grammatical structure from the English language's point of view, which is subsequently applied to the counterparts in Vietnamese. Aims and objectives The primary aim of this research project is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the different structures and semantic nuances employed to express futurity in English, and to compare these with their corresponding expressions in Vietnamese. The central focus of the study is to gain a comprehensive understanding of how future events are communicated in both languages. This understanding is crucial for fostering precise and effective interlingual communication.
By achieving this, the study aims to serve as a valuable resource for learners, enhancing their ability to accurately and appropriately convey future-related concepts in English. 14 In order to gain the aim of the study, the following objective are put forward: - To list ways of expressing futurity in English - To list ways of expressing futurity in Vietnamese translation version - To compare the differences of two languages in the ways of expressing futurity 1. Research questions To achieve the two foregoing objectives, we build three questions as follows: - What are the ways of expressing futurity in English in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”? - What are the ways of expressing futurity in Vietnamese in the novel’s Vietnamese translation version? - What are the similarities and differences in the ways of expressing the futurity in English and Vietnamese in the given literary work and its Vietnamese translation version? 1. Methods of the study In this study, we adopt comparative and contrastive, statistical analysis methods to conduct this research.