Tải miễn phí luận văn An analysis on some discourse features of english economics news = phân tích một số đặc điểm diễn ngôn trong các bản tin kinh tế tiếng anh

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The thesis could not be completed without the great support from my lecturers, my family and my friends.
First of all, I would like to express my deepest and special gratitude to my supervisor, M.A Vo Thi Hong Minh, for her readiness at all time to discuss the problems and give me precious advice, valuable materials and enormous corrections.
Next, I am grateful to my loving parents, my dedicated friends for their unconditional love, support and forbearance.
Finally, I am all too aware that despite all the advice and assistance, I feel that the project is too far from perfect ; it is, therefore, my sole responsibility for any inadequacies and shortcomings that the thesis may be considered to have

Vinh, May 2011
Phan Thi Dung






ABSTRACT

In this thesis, the author studies how grammatical cohesion and epistemic modality manifested in some English economic news. First, she discusses about text and discourse, discourse analysis, types of cohesive devices, and modality. She mainly focuses on grammatical cohesion, its sub-types and epistemic modality. They are basic theoretical background for analyzing the data. Then, she surveys how grammatical cohesion and epistemic modality manifested in ten English economics news. Finally, the author mentions to some difficulties that students and readers often meet in learning and understanding a news report, from that giving some implications to Giúp them have better results in their work.



TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i
ABSTRACT ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS iii
LIST OF TABLES v
PART A: INTRODUCTION 1
1. Rationale of the study 1
2. Aims of the Study 2
3. Scope of the Study 2
4. Methods of the Study 3
5. Design of the Study 3
Chapter 1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 4
1.1. Discourse versus Text 4
1.2. Discourse Analysis 5
1.3. Cohesion and Coherence 5
1.4. Types of Cohesive Devices 6
1.4.1. Reference 7
1.4.2. Substitution 8
1.4.3. Ellipsis 9
1.4.4. Conjunction 10
1.5. Modality 12
1.5.1. Definition 12
1.5.2. Modal categories 12
1.5.2.1. Deontic modality 12
1.5.2.2. Epistemic modality 13
1.5.3. Expressions of modality 14
1.5.3.1. Verbs 14
1.5.3.2. Adverbs 15
1.5.3.3. Adjectives 15
1.5.3.4. Nouns 16
1.6. The concept of a newspaper 16
1.6.1. Classification of newspaper 16
1.6.2. General structure of a news report 17
Chapter 2. AN ANALYSIS ON SOME DISCOURSE FEATURES OF ENGLISH ECONOMICS NEWS 19
2.1. Some Information about the Material Selected 19
2.2. Grammatical Cohesive Devices 19
2.2.1. Reference 19
2.3.2. Substitution 21
2.3.3. Ellipsis 23
2.3.4. Conjunction 23
2.4. The frequency of occurrences of grammatical cohesive devices in English Economics news 26
2.5. Epistemic Modality Manifested in English Economics News 27
2.5.1. Verbs 27
2.5.1.1. Modal Verbs 27
2.5.1.2. Lexical Verbs 30
2.5.2. Adverbs 31
2.5.3. Adjectives 31
2.5.4. Nouns 32
Chapter 3. DISCUSSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 33
3.1. Findings and Discussion 33
3.2. The problems 34
3.3. Some implications for students and readers to get good results in learning and reading a news report 35
PART C: CONCLUSION 40
1. Recapitulation 40
2. Suggestions for Further Studies 40
REFERENCES 42
APPENDIX


LIST OF TABLES

Table 2.1: General information about the selected material 19
Table 2.2. Frequency rates of anaphoric reference refering to person and thing 20
Table 2.3. Survey results on anaphoric reference and cataphoric reference 21
Table 2.4. Survey results on different types of substitution 22
Table 2.5. The frequent use of nominal, verbal and clausal ellipsis 23
Table 2.6. The proportion of different types of conjunction in terms of its meaning 26
Table 2.7. The frequency of occurrences of cohesive devices in English Economics News 27
Table 2.8. The frequency of occurrence of epistemic modality seen from types of modal verbs 30
Table 2.9. The frequency of occurrence of epistemic modality seen from fours types of word-forms manifested 32


PART A: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale of the study
English has asserted its big role in our life on many fields such as education, politics, science, technology, economics, etc. Among them, economics is
considered to be one of the objects that has been significantly affected. In fact, the world economy is developping very rapidly and actively. To have such success, it requires all countries in the world to unify their economy to lead to the globalisation. And the first thing they must do is to use a common language in trade exchanging. English is the best choice for this. In fact, most economics news and reports are written and published in that language. Therefore; if businessmen, companies would like to read or understand them to serve for their business better, they must know how to use English. As we can see, the more information we have from market, partners and customers, the more big chances we will get.
In addition, in the process of conducting this research, we realized that English economics news is said to be a vital and useful expression of grammatical cohesion as well as modality usage. It is an ideal place where journalists try to convey as much information as possible by using cohesive devices, especially grammatical device.
Morever, by using modality, especially, epistemic modality, writers can express their opinions and stances about economic issues to Giúp readers, those who are businessmen to have a better advice for their work. However, most readers find them difficult to understand because they contain a lot of grammatical cohesion and epistemic modality. Therefore, it is necessary to do the research about how English economic news is built and how grammatical cohesion and modality are used. The materials choosen to do the the research retrieved from VOA- a famous broadcast brand all over the world because of its believable information resources to assist businessmen and anyone who is interested in economics have more knowledge and experience to get more success in their work.
Starting from these issues above, the author chooses the topic “Some Discourse Features of English Economics News” to do her research.
2. Aims of the Study
The aims of the study are:
• Providing some general knowledge and emphasize the important role of grammatical cohesion and epistemic modality in creating textual coherence and various meanings in English Economic News.
• Giving and analyzing some statistics and descriptions of grammatical cohesion as well as epistemic modality in newspaper articles.
• Studying the reasons leading to the different degrees of fondness in different types of grammatical cohesion and epistemic modality.
• Suggesting some implications for students and readers in learning and reading to understand English economics news.
To fulfill these above aims, the thesis will answer questions as follow:
- What are Grammatical Cohesion and Epistemic Modality?
- What are grammatical devices and markers of epistemic modality frequently used in economics news reports?
- How to Giúp students and readers to get good results in learning and reading an economics news report ?
3. Scope of the Study
A text is often analyzed by many different discourse features, for example, form and fuction, cohesion, theme, rheme, register, etc. However, for the time and resource constraints as well as the limited size of the thesis, refering all of those features seems impossible. Thus, this paper would like to go into the analysis of some prominent points in ten English Economics News given from VOA. They are grammatical cohesion and epistemic modality.
The theoretical background of the first issues above are provided mainly by Halliday and Hassan’s (1976) and some taken from textbooks as well as references from internet, newspaper, and so on. These discriptions are used as the framework for data analysis.


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