VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES TRẦN THỊ ÁNH DIỆP VIETNAMESE TRANSLATED VARIANTS OF VERBS OF GIVING/RECEIVING IN "HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE" BY J. ROWLING (Các biến thể dịch thuật tiếng Việt của nhóm động từ trao/nhận trong bản dịch “Harry Potter và Hoàng tử lai” của J. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 60220201 Hanoi - 2016 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES TRẦN THỊ ÁNH DIỆP VIETNAMESE TRANSLATED VARIANTS OF VERBS OF GIVING/RECEIVING IN "HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE" BY J. ROWLING (Các biến thể dịch thuật tiếng Việt của nhóm động từ trao/nhận trong bản dịch “Harry Potter và Hoàng tử lai” của J.
MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 60220201 Supervisor: Assoc. Lâm Quang Đông Hanoi - 2016 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I declare that this thesis, entitled Vietnamese translated variants of verbs of Giving/Receiving in "Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince" by J. Rowling, and the work presented in it is my own and has been generated by me as the result of my own research. I confirm that when I quoted from the work of others, the source was always given and no part of this work has been published before submission.
Hanoi,2016 Trần Thị Ánh Diệp i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENT During the whole process of conducting this study for her MA thesis, the writer has received the support as well as encouragement from a number of people. Thus, it will probably be an unacceptable mistake if this invaluable contribution to the accomplishment of this thesis is not mentioned. First of all, her heartfelt gratitude is reserved to Assoc. Lâm Quang Đông, her supervisor, for the patience in providing constant and careful guidance, advice as well as useful corrections and suggestions.
Secondly, I want to thank all of the lecturers, professors and doctors teaching at the Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies of ULIS for their lessons and supports during my MA course. Additionally, her sincere thanks are delivered to her beloved family and friends, whose unlimited love and support have become a strongly motivation for her to complete this paper. ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT Recent studies have shown that translation is a problematic procedure with numerous complicated issues that should be detected. In order to facilitate the translator in the process of translation, especially at word level, this paper is carried out at the endeavor of exploring the English verbs of Giving/Receiving and their corresponding variants in the sixth novel “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” of the Harry Potter series.
From that, the most used verbs as well as the verbs with the highest number of variants could be revealed. To reach these aims, the qualitative, contrastive and quantitative approaches are employed. The original version is examined to list the English verbs and then contrasted with the Vietnamese translation to find out the variants. The explanation of the appearance of these variants is suggested.
The results of the study reveal that the Giving verb give and the Receiving verb get are the most common verbs in the novel. They are also the verbs with the highest number of variants. The translator‟s choice in this novel is believed to rely on the context of the utterance, the structure of the verb phrase in the utterance and the original word choice. However, the extent of influence of each factor on Giving verbs are not the same as on Receiving verbs.
iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. vi LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES.
vii PART A: INTRODUCTION. Rationale of the study. Aims of the study. Research Approaches and Procedure.
Significance of the study. Scope of the study. Structure of the thesis .5 CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND. The generality of translation.
Verbs of Giving/Receiving .