VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ NGỌC MAI LEFT DISLOCATION AND RIGHT DISLOCATION IN ENGLISH VERSUS VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS IN SOME ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE SHORT STORIES FROM 1990 UNTIL NOW Cấu trúc dịch chuyển thông tin sang trái và dịch chuyển thông tin sang phải trong tiếng Anh và tương đương trong tiếng Việt trong một số truyện ngắn tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt từ năm 1990 đến nay MA. MINOR THESIS Major: English Linguistics Code : 60220201 HÀ NỘI – 2016 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ NGỌC MAI LEFT DISLOCATION AND RIGHT DISLOCATION IN ENGLISH VERSUS VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS IN SOME ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE SHORT STORIES FROM 1990 UNTIL NOW Cấu trúc dịch chuyển thông tin sang trái và dịch chuyển thông tin sang phải trong tiếng Anh và tương đương trong tiếng Việt trong một số truyện ngắn tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt từ năm 1990 đến nay MA. MINOR THESIS Major: English Linguistics Code : 60220201 Supervisor: Dr. Huỳnh Anh Tuấn HÀ NỘI – 2016 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com i DECLARATION I certify that this minor thesis entitled “Left dislocation and right dislocation in English versus Vietnamese equivalents in some English and Vietnamese short stories from 1990 until now”is the result of my own research and all the materials used in this study has been identified and acknowledged.A thesis has not been submitted for any degree to any other universities or institutions.
Ha Noi, 2016 Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My minor thesis has been completed thanks to the assisstance and guidance of my teachers, my family as well as my friends. First of all, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Huynh Anh Tuan for his enthusiastic assistance, academic guidance, good suggestions and critical comments on my study, without which the work would not have been completed. Secondly, I am greatly indebted to my lecturers in the faculty of post- graduate studies for their useful lectures and contribution to my study.
Last but not least, I would like to acknowledge the considerate support and indispensable assistance of my family, my friends and my colleagues while the work was being done. One more thing I would like to say is that in spite of all the efforts I have made and the advice and assistance I have received, I am sure my minor thesis is far from perfect. Therefore, it is my responsibility for any inadequacies and shortcomings that arise in my minor thesis. Hanoi, October 2016 Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com iii ABSTRACT This research is carried out to investigate the similarities and differences in the use of Left dislocation and Right dislocation in English and Vietnamese short stories.
The analytical data is collected from ten English and ten Vietnamese short stories from 1990 until now. In the research, Left dislocation and Right dislocation in English is compared and contrasted with Vietnamese equivalents in terms of their structure and function. The result of the research shows that there are similarities and differences in the use of these constructions in English and Vietnamese short stories. The most prominent similarity in the use of LD and RD in English and Vietnamese short stories is that in terms of structure, these constructions can be realized by a Noun phrase moved leftward or rightward is coreferential with a resumptive pronoun in the same sentence.
And the most significant difference is that LD realized in English short stories can perform the function of contrasting while Vietnamese LD does not. On the other hand, Vietnamese RD can function to focus whereas English RD does not. iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com iv TABLE OF CONTENTS i Declaration. ii ii iii iii Abstract.
iv iv Table of contents. List of abbreviations…………………………….………………… viii List of figures………………………………………………………. ix PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Aims of the study.
Scope of the study. Method of the study. Design of the study. 3 3 PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1.1 Review of previous studies…………………………………….
Canonical and non-canonical structures……………………. Left dislocation in English……………………………………. Right dislocation and post- posing…………. Right dislocation and afterthought………………………….
English vs Vietnamese sentence structures and sentence elements……………………………………………………………. 16 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Left dislocation and right dislocation in Vietnamese…………………………………………………………. Left dislocation in Vietnamese……………………………….
Right Dislocation in Vietnamese……………………………. Selection of samples…………………………………………. 22 CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSIONS………. The percentages of LD and RD in English and Vietnamese short stories………………………………………………………….
The percentages of LD and RD in English short stories…… 23 3.The percentages of LD and RD in Vietnamese short stories. The percentages of LD and RD in English and Vietnamese short stories…………………………………………………………. The Structures and functions of LD in English and Vietnamese short stories. The Structures of LD in English and Vietnamese short Stories……………………………………………………………….
The functions of LD in English and Vietnamese short Stories………………………………………………………………. The Structures and functions of RD in English and Vietnamese short stories……………………………………………. The Structures of RD in English and Vietnamese short stories. The functions of RD in English and Vietnamese short stories……………………………………………………………….
Left dislocation in English and Vietnamese short stories. 35 v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Right dislocation in English and Vietnamese short stories…. Left dislocation in English and Vietnamese short stories……….
Right dislocation in English and Vietnamese short stories. The frequency of using LD and RD in English and Vietnamese short stories…………………………………………………………. Limitations of the study…………………………………………. Suggestions for further study………………………………….……… I Appendix II………………………………………………………… VI Appendix III…………………………………………………….… VIII Appendix IV……………………………………………………….
X vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS LD: Left Dislocation RD: Right Dislocation NP: Noun Phrase vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com viii LIST OF FIGURES IN THE STUDY Figure Title Page 1 Frequency of LD and RD in English short stories 24 2 Frequency of LD and RD in Vietnamese short stories 25 Frequency distribution of LD and RD in English and 3 26 Vietnamese short stories Distribution of LD performing the functions of Topicalizing, 4 27 Focusing and Contrasting in English short stories. Distribution of LD performing the functions of Topicalizing 5 29 and Focusing in Vietnamese short stories. Distribution of LD performing the functions of Topicalizing, 6 Focusing and Contrasting in English and Vietnamese short 30 stories Distribution of RD performing the functions of Identifying 7 the referent, Reintroducing the topic and Adding attributive 32 meaning in English short stories Distribution of RD performing the functions of Identifying 8 the referent, Reintroducing the topic, Adding attributive 33 meaning and Focusing in Vietnamese short stories Distribution of RD performing the functions of Identifying 9 the referent, Reintroducing, Adding attributive meaning and 34 focusing in English and Vietnamese short stories. viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationale One of the key questions to be solved by reader/ listener when confronted with a sentence is to determine ―who did what to whom‖. To this end, the reader/listener must be able to unambiguously identify the different constituents of a sentence in order to assign thematic and syntactic roles. Interestingly, different languages draw on different sources of information for role assignment. Mac Whinney et al (1984) have shown that while Italian subjects used agreement information as the most important cue, English subjects rely primarily on word order.
In linguistics, word order is to the study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and each language may employ a different order. The connection between word orders in different languages is of interest to linguistics. They found that among natural languages with a word order preference, SVO is the second most common order by number of known languages, after SOV, including English. However, English speakers are provided with a variety of non canonical syntactic means for expressing a given proposition.
―Although these non canonical-word-order utterances may be truth-conditionally equivalent to the corresponding canonical variant, they differ in their relationship to the discourse context‖. (Birner, 1994) The interaction between structures and functions has been an interesting and inspiring topic for many past scholars, who have already done a number of researches on it. They have studied, for instance, the functions of different moods, different interrogative forms and so on and so forth. However, studies on dislocated structures, which we refer to as non-canonical constructions here, are relative few.
These non- canonical constructions are, however, quite common found in colloquial usages as they seem to serve a wide range of functions. The present study is thus interested in systematically studying the structural and functional features of two specific non- 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com canonical constructions, namely left dislocation (LD) and right dislocation (RD) in English and Vietnamese. Aims of the study The study aims at: + Investigating the use of Left dislocation and Right dislocation in English and in Vietnamese short stories in terms of their structure and function. + Working out the similarities and differences in the use of these two constructions as revealed in some English and Vietnamese short stories in terms of their structure and function.
Research questions In order to realize the aims, the study purports to answer the following research questions: 1. How are the structure and function of Left dislocation and Right dislocation realized in English and in Vietnamese short stories? 2. What are the similarities and differences in the use of Left dislocation and Right dislocation in English and Vietnamese short stories in terms of their structure and function? 4. Scope of the study The study is carried out and concerned especially with the two non-canonical constructions: LD and RD.
The study focuses on the exploration of two following aspects of these constructions: the structural features and pragmatic functions. Because of the limitation of a minor thesis the study just collects data and investigates ten English short stories and tenVietnamese ones from 1990 until now to analyze and find out the similarities and differences between these constructions in English and Vietnamese equivalents. 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Method of the study In order to achieve the aims of the study, both quantitative and qualitative approach are used.
In using qualitative method, the author sets up criteria for selecting LD and RD in short stories and deciding which certain function the dislocation construction performs. In using quantitative method, the frequencies of the use of left dislocations and right dislocations in English and Vietnamese short stories to perform a certain function is shown. Finally, a contrastive analysis is carried out in order to find out the similarities and differences on the use of LD and RD in English and Vietnamese short stories in terms of their structure and function. Design of the study The paper is divided into three main parts: introduction, development, and conclusion.
Part A: Introduction, briefly introduces the rationale of the study, the aims and objectives of the study, research questions, scope of the study, the method of the study, and the significance. Part B: Development, is the focus of the study, consists of 3 chapters: Chapter one , Literature Review deals with the literature relevant to the topic Chapter two, Left dislocation and Right dislocation in English and Vietnamese, provides with the structural and functional features of these constructions. Chapter three, Methodology, presents the subjects, the research questions, study methods and the procedures of data collection and data analysis. Chapter four, Findings and discussion, analyses and discusses the findings which were gained from the data collected.
Part C: Conclusion, concerns with the summaries of main points, the limitation, the implication and some suggestions for further study. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.