VIETNAM NATIONAT, UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES. SEER Ả HORROR LƯU THỊ PHƯƠNG THUÝ A STUDY OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE CONVERSATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE COURSEBOOK “NEW HEADWAY” -INTERMEDIATE AS SEEN BY TEACHERS OF UNLVERSITY OF ECONOMIC-TECHNICAL LNDUSTRLES Nghiên cứu các chiến lược lịch sự được sử dựng trong các bài hội thoại của giáo trình giao tiếp NEW IIEADWAY trình độ intermediafe dưới cái nhìn của giáo viên trường Đại học Kinh tế -Kỹ thuật Công nghiệp M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field : English Linguistics Code : 60220201 HANOT - 2016 VIETNAM NATIONAT, UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES. KẾ TT NNNNM LƯU TII PHƯƠNG TIUÝ A STUDY OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE CONVERSATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE COURSEBOOK “NEW HEADWAY” -INTERMEDIATE AS SEEN BY TEACHERS OF UNLVERSITY OF ECONOMIC-TECHNICAL LNDUSTRLES Nghiên cứu các chiến lược lịch sự được sử dựng trong các bài hội thoại của giáo trình giao tiếp NEW IIEADWAY trình độ intermediafe dưới cái nhìn của giáo viên trường Đại học Kinh tế -Kỹ thuật Công nghiệp (OR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code : 60220201 Supervisor : Prof.
Nguyễn Quang HANOI - 2016 DECLARATION: Thereby cortily that this thesis is my own work. T confirm thal this work is for the requirement of the M.A, and this thesis has not been submitted for elsewhere in any other form for the fulfilment of any other degree or tertiary institution. Hanoi, November 2016 Tau Thi Phuong Thuy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS At the completion of this thesis, 1 would like to show my sincerest gratitude and appreciation to a number of people for their encouragement and support. To bogin with, T would like to express my greaiest and deepest thankfulness to Prof.
Nguyen Quang, my supervisor, for his valuable guidance, and advice during the procedure of my thesis. Without his supervision, this M.A thesis could not have been accomplished in addition, | would like to give my thanks to Mrs. Le Ngoc Llanh, dean of English Faculty as well as all UNETI teachers who participated in my study, for thei wholchearted facililalion. Without thei ideas, their support.
and their contribution, I cannot complete my thesis. Last but not least, I wish to send my special thanks to my family particularly any mother, my father and my husband for their help on the completion of this thesis. ‘They have always supplied the best conditions form me to fulfil the thesis. Rationale Language has always been an indispensable part not only im communication among people who share or do not share the same nationality, social or ethnic background but also in reoording and underslanding cullure.
Among languages all over the world, English is considered the most powerful language. Ihe number of people learning English has sharply increased and a variety of learning and teaching tnalenials are available 1o meel. their leaning demands. In Vietnam, linglish has developed with an unprecedented speed and become a compulsory subject in schools, colleges and universities.
Although a lot of Vietnamese learners of English mastor grammar rules and aecurmulale as much vocabulary as possible, they offen experience communication breakdown when participating in a real daily conversations. In order to communicate successfully across cuHures, Icarners necd to be provided with culural knowledge and the selationship between language and culture. Additionally, leamers must be aware of the tidden parls of culture including politeness strategies in daily social mleraction. In commuuucation, people use the politeness strategics to save hearers’ face and avoid making other people feel uncomfortable.
This roscarch paper entitled “4 study of politeness strategies and role relationships in the conversational activities of the course book “New Headway” (intermediate) as seen by teachers of English at University of Economic-Technical Industries” is motivated by the above reasons. Hopefully, the research would supply teachers with an insight into the politeness swategies under the influential role relationships in the conversational activities of the course book “New Ileadway” (intermediate). Aims of the study The study is carried out to achieve the following objectives: - To identify and classily posilive end negative politeness ommployed in the TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURE! PART A: INTRODUCTION, 1.
Aims of the study. Scope of the study. 4, Significance of the study .cc:scssesietseseisietseieeusiaeiiae see 5. Design of the study.
a PART B: DEVELOPMENT Chapter T: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND nA am 1. Theory of Speech Acts 2. Theory of pohteness and politeness siralegies 2.Theory of politeness.Polilieness strategies wees essceseenes se ssinersensieesetaeetente 2.Role relationships affecting politeness strategies. 16 CHAPTER I: METHODOLOGY 19 1, Research questioDs.iee 19 vì PART A: INTRODUCTION, 1.
Rationale Language has always been an indispensable part not only im communication among people who share or do not share the same nationality, social or ethnic background but also in reoording and underslanding cullure. Among languages all over the world, English is considered the most powerful language. Ihe number of people learning English has sharply increased and a variety of learning and teaching tnalenials are available 1o meel. their leaning demands.
In Vietnam, linglish has developed with an unprecedented speed and become a compulsory subject in schools, colleges and universities. Although a lot of Vietnamese learners of English mastor grammar rules and aecurmulale as much vocabulary as possible, they offen experience communication breakdown when participating in a real daily conversations. In order to communicate successfully across cuHures, Icarners necd to be provided with culural knowledge and the selationship between language and culture. Additionally, leamers must be aware of the tidden parls of culture including politeness strategies in daily social mleraction.
In commuuucation, people use the politeness strategics to save hearers’ face and avoid making other people feel uncomfortable. This roscarch paper entitled “4 study of politeness strategies and role relationships in the conversational activities of the course book “New Headway” (intermediate) as seen by teachers of English at University of Economic-Technical Industries” is motivated by the above reasons. Hopefully, the research would supply teachers with an insight into the politeness swategies under the influential role relationships in the conversational activities of the course book “New Ileadway” (intermediate). Aims of the study The study is carried out to achieve the following objectives: - To identify and classily posilive end negative politeness ommployed in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS At the completion of this thesis, 1 would like to show my sincerest gratitude and appreciation to a number of people for their encouragement and support.
To bogin with, T would like to express my greaiest and deepest thankfulness to Prof. Nguyen Quang, my supervisor, for his valuable guidance, and advice during the procedure of my thesis. Without his supervision, this M.A thesis could not have been accomplished in addition, | would like to give my thanks to Mrs. Le Ngoc Llanh, dean of English Faculty as well as all UNETI teachers who participated in my study, for thei wholchearted facililalion.
Without thei ideas, their support. and their contribution, I cannot complete my thesis. Last but not least, I wish to send my special thanks to my family particularly any mother, my father and my husband for their help on the completion of this thesis. ‘They have always supplied the best conditions form me to fulfil the thesis.
ABSTRACT This paper is carried out at ondeavour of exploring UNRTT teachers’ perception in the linguistics politeness strategies under the influence of role relationships in the conversational activities in New Ileadway. On the basis of quantitalive method, survey questionnaire with multiple choice questions and discourse completion task are employed to collect data from fifteen UNETL teachers of Inglish The research shows that the frequencies of politeness siratepy occurence i conversational aclivities of the material are nol always the same. The result reveals that positive politeness strategies are preferred more than negative politeness strategies in almost all kinds of conversational activities. Moreover, the role relationships relating to relative power, social distance and ranking of impositions make considerable impact on the choice of politeness strategies.
The study reveals that all the UNETI consume politeness in both utterances in NHW and (he significant role relationships in the selection of the lypes of politeness stralogies An addition, they classified them into positive and negative politeness strategies. in LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Figure 1: Possible Strategics for Doing FTAs (Brown /Levinson, 1987: 60) Figure 2: Frequency of negative and positive politeness strategies found in the conversations. Figure 3: Frequency of positive polileness strategies used in the canversations. Figure 4: Frequency of negative politeness strategies used in the conversations.
Table 1: The statistics of the appearance of positive and negative politeness stralegies based on the roles of participatits ‘Table 2: The statistics of the choice of the appearance of positive or negative politeness strategies based on the roles relationships under UNBTI teachers’ perception ABSTRACT This paper is carried out at ondeavour of exploring UNRTT teachers’ perception in the linguistics politeness strategies under the influence of role relationships in the conversational activities in New Ileadway. On the basis of quantitalive method, survey questionnaire with multiple choice questions and discourse completion task are employed to collect data from fifteen UNETL teachers of Inglish The research shows that the frequencies of politeness siratepy occurence i conversational aclivities of the material are nol always the same. The result reveals that positive politeness strategies are preferred more than negative politeness strategies in almost all kinds of conversational activities. Moreover, the role relationships relating to relative power, social distance and ranking of impositions make considerable impact on the choice of politeness strategies.
The study reveals that all the UNETI consume politeness in both utterances in NHW and (he significant role relationships in the selection of the lypes of politeness stralogies An addition, they classified them into positive and negative politeness strategies. in TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURE! PART A: INTRODUCTION, 1. Aims of the study.
Scope of the study. 4, Significance of the study .cc:scssesietseseisietseieeusiaeiiae see 5. Design of the study. a PART B: DEVELOPMENT Chapter T: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND nA am 1.
Theory of Speech Acts 2. Theory of pohteness and politeness siralegies 2.Theory of politeness.Polilieness strategies wees essceseenes se ssinersensieesetaeetente 2.Role relationships affecting politeness strategies. 16 CHAPTER I: METHODOLOGY 19 1, Research questioDs.iee 19 vì PART A: INTRODUCTION, 1. Rationale Language has always been an indispensable part not only im communication among people who share or do not share the same nationality, social or ethnic background but also in reoording and underslanding cullure.
Among languages all over the world, English is considered the most powerful language. Ihe number of people learning English has sharply increased and a variety of learning and teaching tnalenials are available 1o meel. their leaning demands. In Vietnam, linglish has developed with an unprecedented speed and become a compulsory subject in schools, colleges and universities.
Although a lot of Vietnamese learners of English mastor grammar rules and aecurmulale as much vocabulary as possible, they offen experience communication breakdown when participating in a real daily conversations. In order to communicate successfully across cuHures, Icarners necd to be provided with culural knowledge and the selationship between language and culture. Additionally, leamers must be aware of the tidden parls of culture including politeness strategies in daily social mleraction. In commuuucation, people use the politeness strategics to save hearers’ face and avoid making other people feel uncomfortable.
This roscarch paper entitled “4 study of politeness strategies and role relationships in the conversational activities of the course book “New Headway” (intermediate) as seen by teachers of English at University of Economic-Technical Industries” is motivated by the above reasons. Hopefully, the research would supply teachers with an insight into the politeness swategies under the influential role relationships in the conversational activities of the course book “New Ileadway” (intermediate).
