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Trang 1 QUY NHON UNIVERSITY NGUYỄN THỊ XUÂN DUNG A STUDY OF RHETORICAL DEVICES IN Trang 2 TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN NGUYỄN THỊ XUÂN DUNG BIỆN PHÁP TU TỪ TRONG CÁC BÀI BÁO THUỘC TẠP CHÍ N
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY NGUYỄN THỊ XUÂN DUNG A STUDY OF RHETORICAL DEVICES IN ARTICLES FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 Supervisor: HA THANH HAI, PhD BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN NGUYỄN THỊ XUÂN DUNG BIỆN PHÁP TU TỪ TRONG CÁC BÀI BÁO THUỘC TẠP CHÍ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số: 8220201 Người hướng dẫn: TS Hà Thanh Hải i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP This thesis does not contain any information that has been published elsewhere with the exception of references stated within the thesis No other person's work has been used in the thesis without giving proper credit This thesis has not been submitted to any other tertiary institution for consideration for a degree or diploma Binh Dinh, 2023 Nguyễn Thị Xuân Dung ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would want to sincerely thank and appreciate my supervisor, Dr Ha Thanh Hai, for all of his assistance and support in helping me finish this thesis He took the time to read my manuscripts and make the necessary edits, for which I am also grateful I want to express my gratitude to the course lecturers for their insightful discussions, helpful resources, and insightful experiences that helped lay the groundwork for my thesis I am so appreciative of my friends for supporting me and getting me the supplies I needed My sincere gratitude is extended to my family, who have always looked after me and have helped me go through a lot of stress while I've been studying for this thesis and the course iii ABSTRACT The primary goal of this thesis is to highlight common rhetorical device elements, their frequency of occurrence in NatGeo articles, and their role in ensuring the appeal and persuasiveness of these articles The six categories of rhetorical devices examined in this study are personification, simile, personification, repetition, rhetorical question, and hyperbole They are all included in the lexical rhetorical group This study employs Galperin's theoretical framework (Galperin, 1977) to examine rhetorical devices in the articles Between 2021 and the first half of 2023, 50 NatGeo articles serve as the study's data To provide more accurate information on rhetorical devices used in magazine language, they are lexically characterized and studied using both qualitative and quantitative methods The results indicate that six rhetorical devices appear in varying proportions It seems that grabbing readers' attention is the primary objective of rhetorical devices in articles However, every style has a specific function Repetition has the lowest amount, whereas metaphor makes up a far bigger percentage than any other This study only makes up a small portion of the body of research on rhetorical devices Its findings may be used to teach and learn English rhetorical devices generally, and rhetorical devices in articles specifically, as rhetorical devices are useful in literature, linguistics, and education iv TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS CONVENTIONS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Rationale 1 1.2 Aims and objectives 3 1.2.1 Aims 3 1.2.2 Objectives 3 1.4 Scope of the study 3 1.5 Methods of the study 4 1.6 Significance of the study 4 1.7 Organization of the study 4 1.8 Summary 5 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1 Review of prior studies on rhetorical devices 6 2.2 Rhetorical Devices 7 2.2.1 Definitions of Rhetorical Devices 7 2.2.2 Functions of Rhetorical Devices 9 2.3 Classification of rhetorical devices 10 2.3.1 Phonetic rhetorical devices 11 2.3.2 Syntactical rhetorical devices 12 v 2.3.3 Lexical rhetorical devices 12 2.3.4 National Geographic (NatGeo) 30 2.4 Summary 31 CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY 33 3.1 Research Design 33 3.2 Research Methods 33 3.3 Data Analysis 34 3.4 Research Procedure 34 3.5 Reliability and Validity 35 3.6 Summary 35 CHAPTER 4 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 36 4.1 Frequency of occurrence of commonly-used rhetorical devices in NatGeo articles 36 4.2 Metaphor 37 4.3 Simile 41 4.4 Hyperbole 46 4.5 Personification 52 4.6 Rhetorical question 55 4.7 Repetition 57 CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS 61 5.1 Conclusion 61 5.2 Implications 63 5.3 Limitations of the study 64 5.4 Suggestions for further research 64 REFERENCES 66 APPENDIX 69 vi CONVENTIONS - [NatGeo1-50]: NatGeo articles are numbered from 1 to 50 (details in Appendix) - [Met]: metaphor - [Sim]: simile - [Hyp]: hyperbole - [Per]: personification - [Rhe]: rhetorical questions - [Rep]: repetition - Italic words are used for emphasis, examples or the use of technical terms - Underlined words mark the use of what is being demonstrated vii LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1 Frequency of Occurrence of Rhetorical Devices in NatGeo articles .36 viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.1 Distribution of Rhetorical Devices 37