UNIVERSITY - HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUMES NGUYEN TITY LINIT AN ANALYSIS OF CLAUSE EXPANSION TN ‘TWO THANKSGIVING BAY GENTLEMEN’ BASED ON SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AND SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING WRITING Phân tỉch về cú mở rộng trong tác phẩm “Hai quý ông trong ngảy LỄ Tạ ơn” dựa trên quan diễm Ngữ pháp Chức năng Hệ thông và một số gợi ÿ trong giảng dạy viết MLA. MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CODE: 60 22 15 HA NÓI - 2010 VIEFNAM NATIONAT. UNIVERSITY - HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUMES NGUYEN THUY LINH AN ANALYSIS OF CLAUSE EXPANSION IN ‘TWO THANKSGIVING BAY GENTLEMEN” RASED ON SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AND SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING WRITING Phân tích về củ mở rộng, trong tác phẩm “Ilai quý ông trong ngày Lễ Tạ ơn" dựa trên quan điểm Ngữ pháp Chức nắng IIệ thông. và một số gợi ý trong giảng dạy viết M.
MINOR THESIS WIELD: ENGLISIT LINGUISTICS CODE: 60 22 15 SUPERVISOR: PHAM THI THANH THUY, M. HA NOI - 2610 TABLE OF CONTE Acknowledgement Table of Contents Chapter I: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study 1. Aitns af the study we 1.
Scope of the study 1.4, Methods of the study wow LS. Design of the stutly Chapter I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2. O° Henry and his work 2. ‘o Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, 10 2.
Systemic Functional Grammar & Clause 2. Systemic Functional Grammar & Its Three Metafunctions 1 2. Above the Clause: the Clause Complex 14 2. Clause Complex and Sentence 14 2.2, Parataxis and Llypotaxis 2.
Projection and ixpansion 16 a, Expansion 16 b. Summary 18 Chapter Tlf: EXPANSION IN “TWO TILANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN” AND SOME SUGGESTIONS IN TEACHING WRITING 3. Expansion in “Two Thanksgiving Day Gsnilemen” by O"Tlenry 3.1, Clause Complexes in ‘Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen’ 3. Expansion in ‘Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen’ 1.
Methods of the Study As Ihe title of this the study has suggested, the following steps shonld be taken so as to make fall analysis of the research paper. Firstly, the original of “I'wo ‘Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen” hy ©. Henry will be searched on some famons and rdiable websites for reading. There are some versions from Bookwarm ot A Ladder Edition, in which the story was re-written in simpler ways to meet with different reading levels of readers, However, in this paper we would analyze the original onc by O, Honry through which his ways of writing complex clauses can be scon better.
Secondly, related issues such as Systemic Functional Grammar, Clause and expecially notions about Clause Complex in the Tight of Functional Grarmnar will bo tae clear. This would make it easier for readers to understand when the analysis of the story is shown, Thirdly, “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen” will be analyzed in order to svc what kind of expansion and what devices to connect clauses the author used in his writing, Finally, the results of the analysis and difficulties in studying writing of first year students will be discussed in dslails to come fo the suggestions about (caching writing for students in Faculty of Foreign Languages of Thai Nguyen University. In order to achieve the goals of the study, two successive methods will be applied for batter research resulis. They are descriptive and analytical.
The general ressarch methodology adopted in the paper is inductive 1. 5, Design of the Study This thesis is designedin five chapters, Chapter one, Introduction, presents the rationale for choosing the topic, the aims, scope of the study and methods lo be applied in the paper Chapter two, Theoretical Buckyround, provides a careful examination of the fundamental, theoretical concepts and necessary knowledge as those about the author 0” Homry, issnes about Sysleric Functional Grammar, Clause Complex, which are relevant to the purposes of this study. Conjunctions for Expansionin “Iwo Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen’ 32 3. Some Suggestions for Teaching Writing 36 Chapter IV: CONCLUSION 4.
Limilalions of the study and Suggestions for Further Res 4đ REFERENCES 4 APPENDIX I APPENDIX 2 VI APPENDIX 3 XI CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2. Henry and his wark 2. Henry was the pouname of Willian Sidney Porter who was bom on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. His middle name at birth was Sidney, he changed the spelling to Sydney in 1898.
Llis parents ware Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825-1888), a physician, and Mary Janc Virginia Swaim Porter (1833-1865). They were marricd April 20, 1858. When William was thuce, his mother died from fubcreulosis, so he and his father moved into the home of his patemal grandmother.
As a child, Porter was always reading Te read everything from classics to dime novels. Ilis favorite work was One Thousand and One Nights. Porter graduated from his aunt velina Maria Porter's elementary school in 1876. Te then enrofled al the Lindsey Street High School.
[is aunt continued to tutor hirn until he was fifteen. In 1879, he started working am his uncle's drugstore and in 1881, at the age of nineteen, he was licensed as a pharmacist. At the drugstore, he also showed off his natal artistic tents by sketching the townsfolk Porter traveled with Dr. Hall lo Texas in March 1882, hoping thal a change of air would help alleviate a persistent cough he had developed.
He took up residence on the shesp ranch of Richard fall, James' son, in La Salle County and helped out us a shepherd, ranch hand, cook and vaby-silter. While on the ranch, he leaned bits of Spanish and German from the mix of immigrant ranch hands. He also spent time reading classic literature. Porter’s health did improve and he traveled with Richard to Austin in 1884, where he decided to remain and was welcomed into the home of the Harrells, who were friends of Richard's.
Porter took a number of different jobs over the next several ‘years, first as pharmacist then as a draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began writing as a sidoline. Porter led an active social life in Austin, including membership in singing and drama groups. Porter was a good singer and musician.
Le played both the guitar and mandolin. He became member of the "Hill Cily Quartet," 2 group of young men whe sang at gatherings and serenaded young women of the town. Porter met and began courting Athol Listes, who was seventeen years old and from a wealthy family. Her mother objected to the mate because Athol was ill, suffering from tubcrenlosis.
On July 1, 1887, Porter sloped with Athol to the home of Reverend R. Smoot, where they were married, ‘The couple continued to participate in mmsical and theater groups, and Athol encouraged her husband lo yursus his writing. Athol gave birth Lo a son in 1888, who died hours after birth, and then a daughter, Margaret Worth Porter, in September 1889, Porter's friend Richard Hall became ‘Texas Land Commissioner and offered Porter a job. Porter started as a draflsrnan al the Texas Gencrat Land Office (GIO) in 1887 at a salary of $100 a month, drawing maps fiom surveys and field notes, The salary was enough to support his family, but he continued his contributions to magazines and newspapers In the GLO bnilding, he began developing characters and plots for such stories as "Georgia's Ruling" (1900), and "Buried Treasure" (1908).
The casilefike building he worked in was even woven into some of his tales such as “Bexar Scrip No. His job at the GLO was a political appointment by Wall. Hall ran for governor in the clection of 1890 but lost, Porter resigned in caily 1891 when the new govemor was sworn in. In the same year, Porter began working at the First National Bank of Austin as a teller and bookkeeper al the same salary he had made al the GLO.
The bak was operated informally and Porter had trouble keeping track of his books. In 1894, he was accused by the bank of embezzlement and lost his job but was not indicted. He then worked full time on his humorous weekly called The Rolling Stane. which he started while working at the bank.
The Rolling Stone fralured salire on life, peopls and polities and included Porter's short stories and sketches, Although eventually reaching a top circulation of 1500, The Rolling Stone failed in April 1895, pethaps because of Porter's poking fun at powerful peopl, Porler also may have d publication as the paper never provided the money he needed to support his family, By then, his writing and drawings caught the attention of the editor at the Houston Post. Porter and his Gamnily maved to Tousfon in 1895, where he started writing for the Post. His salary was only $25 a month, but it rose steadily as his popularity increased Porter gathered ideas for his column by hanging out in hotel lobbies and observing and talking to poupls there. This was a tectmique he used throughout his writing carccr.
While he was in Houston, the First National Bank of Austin was audited and the federal auditors found several discrepancies. ‘They managed to get a federal indictment against Porter lintitled Expansion in “Iwo Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen” and Suggestions in Teaching Writing, chapler three, which is the facus of the sludy, is aimned at describing the ways clauscs arc linked in a sentence. This part is further divided into three scetions. Each section describes one aspect of expansion found in the stories, After analyzing cases of expansion found, some suggestions for teaching writing for first year sludens ars given out, applying expansion relationship.
‘The last chapter, Conclusian, is set up to summarize the whole paper and provide some suggestions for furtherr arch. Athol Listes, who was seventeen years old and from a wealthy family. Her mother objected to the mate because Athol was ill, suffering from tubcrenlosis. On July 1, 1887, Porter sloped with Athol to the home of Reverend R.
Smoot, where they were married, ‘The couple continued to participate in mmsical and theater groups, and Athol encouraged her husband lo yursus his writing. Athol gave birth Lo a son in 1888, who died hours after birth, and then a daughter, Margaret Worth Porter, in September 1889, Porter's friend Richard Hall became ‘Texas Land Commissioner and offered Porter a job. Porter started as a draflsrnan al the Texas Gencrat Land Office (GIO) in 1887 at a salary of $100 a month, drawing maps fiom surveys and field notes, The salary was enough to support his family, but he continued his contributions to magazines and newspapers In the GLO bnilding, he began developing characters and plots for such stories as "Georgia's Ruling" (1900), and "Buried Treasure" (1908). The casilefike building he worked in was even woven into some of his tales such as “Bexar Scrip No.
His job at the GLO was a political appointment by Wall. Hall ran for governor in the clection of 1890 but lost, Porter resigned in caily 1891 when the new govemor was sworn in. In the same year, Porter began working at the First National Bank of Austin as a teller and bookkeeper al the same salary he had made al the GLO. The bak was operated informally and Porter had trouble keeping track of his books.
In 1894, he was accused by the bank of embezzlement and lost his job but was not indicted. He then worked full time on his humorous weekly called The Rolling Stane. which he started while working at the bank. The Rolling Stone fralured salire on life, peopls and polities and included Porter's short stories and sketches, Although eventually reaching a top circulation of 1500, The Rolling Stone failed in April 1895, pethaps because of Porter's poking fun at powerful peopl, Porler also may have d publication as the paper never provided the money he needed to support his family, By then, his writing and drawings caught the attention of the editor at the Houston Post.
