VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PHẠM HỒNG PHƯỢNG THE SYNTACTIC AND LEXICAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS (Phân tích đối chiếu các đặc điểm cú pháp và từ vựng của các tiêu đề bài báo Tiếng Anh và Tiếng Việt) M. MINOR THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 60.15 Hanoi, 2011 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PHẠM HỒNG PHƯỢNG THE SYNTACTIC AND LEXICAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS (Phân tích đối chiếu các đặc điểm cú pháp và từ vựng của các tiêu đề bài báo Tiếng Anh và Tiếng Việt) M. MINOR THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 60. Nguyễn Huy Kỷ Hanoi, 2011 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS S = Subject V = Verb O = Object C = Complement A = Adverb Aug.
= August Eng = English Viet = Vietnamese Ex = Example EFL = English Foreign Language 5 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1: Frequency of structural headline types in the English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.2: Frequency of sentential headline types in the English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.3: Frequency of simple headline types in the English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.4: Frequency of compound headline types in the English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.5: Frequency of non-sentential headlines in the English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.6: The Frequency of non-finite clauses in the English sample headlines Table 3.7: Frequency of omission of subjects in English and Vietnamese non-finite clausal headlines Table 3.8: Frequency of non-sentential headline types in English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.9: Frequency of nominal headline types in the English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.10: Frequency of types of postmodifiers in Vietnamese nominal headlines.11: Frequency of functional headlines types in English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.12: Frequency of different parts of speech in English and Vietnamese headlines Table 3.13: Frequency of nouns in English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.14: Frequency of dynamic and static verbs in English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.15: Frequency of active and passive voice in English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.16: Frequency of verbs with different syllables in English and Vietnamese corpora Table 3.17: Frequency of the omission of verb 'be' in English corpus 6 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS CANDIDATE‟S STATEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------- i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- iii LIST OF TABLES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iv ABSTRACT-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- v PART A: INTRODUCTION --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1. Rationale of the study ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 2. Objectives of the study ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 3. Scope of the study ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 5.
Methods of the study --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 6. Design of the study ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 PART B: DEVELOPMENT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 4 1. Language of headlines --------------------------------------------------------------- 4 1. Complexity in headlines ------------------------------------------------------------- 4 1.
Typical features of headlines ------------------------------------------------------- 4 1. Contrastive analyses on headlines -------------------------------------------------- 5 1. Studies on headlines in Vietnam ---------------------------------------------------- 6 1. Concepts of headlines ----------------------------------------------------- 7 1.
Functions of headlines ---------------------------------------------------- 7 1. Syntactic and lexical features ------------------------------------------------------- 8 1. Lexical features ------------------------------------------------------------ 14 CHAPTER 2: ANALYSIS ON COLLECTED NEWSPAPER HEADLINES --------- 18 2. Materials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 8 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.
First level of analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------- 19 2. Structural headline types ------------------------------------------------ 19 2. Functional headline types ----------------------------------------------- 26 2. Second level of analysis ------------------------------------------------------------- 27 2.
Parts of speech in sample headlines ------------------------------------- 27 2. Omissions in headlines --------------------------------------------------- 30 2. Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS ---------------------------------------- 32 3. Similar features of English and Vietnamese newspaper headlines-------------------- 32 - 32 3.
Different features of English and Vietnamese newspaper headlines ----------------- 30 3. Implications for teaching journalistic English ----------------------------------- 37 3. Implications for teaching translation ----------------------------------------------- 37 3. Summary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 PART C: CONCLUSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 1.
Limitations of the study ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 3. Suggestions for further studies --------------------------------------------------------------- 40 REFERENCES --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I APPENDIX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1.