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... prominent linguistic features revealed through news reports in specialist business newspapers and policy review articles in central banks reviews and minutes In carrying out the thesis, each linguistic ... features of economics discourse The first three chapters of this collection all discuss aspects of non-literalness in economics discourse, which is seen as making its understanding less transparent, ... The result of the study is considered to be useful to Vietnamese speaking economists reading and writing in English, as well as translators and ESP students Scope of the study It is impossible...
... in Vietnamese there exist Passive expressions (passive sentences) Among traditional researches, there exist two groups: non advocates of Passive expressions, advocates of Passive expressions, ... passive construction is "It was said " like in the following sentences People said that he was jealous of her S V O 13 He was said to be jealous of her S V C It was said that he was jealous of ... linguists suggestions but also pave the new way in understanding the passive construction, which suggest the relations between the passive constructions and other construction based on the two...
... of the WDBs in English 4.2.1.1 Showing Human Relations a Human Appearance: dove s eyes, eagle eyes, eagle nose, eagle s beak, hawk s nose, hawk s eyes, crow s feet, gooseflesh skin, goose-step, ... measurement Through messenger of spring because of the warm weather in spring in the collected and analysed data, the meanings of the WDBs are Vietnam, the WDBs “swallow” in English is not defined ... books as well as the many constraints faced by the Using the WDBs can be very challenging and when such WDBs are researcher For these reasons, further researches should go into more used inappropriately...
... Features of Idioms Table 4.7: Frequency of Semantic Fields of Idioms Expressing Expressing Distance in English Versus Vietnamese Distance in English versus Vietnamese Idioms Expressing Distance in ... but not interests, means, wants and goals least, the researcher would suggest some possible ways of teaching, Social distance is distance between different groups of society in terms of income, ... Idioms Expressing Social Distance in Versus English Versus Vietnamese ENGLISH VIETNAMESE Vietnamese Table 4.3: Structure of Idioms Expressing Psychological Distance in English Versus Vietnamese...
... Silliness/ Clumsiness 14 8.24 16 8.70 used to show bad things as in Sell one s soul to the devil”; “Lucifer” 13 Hypocrisy 1.76 4.35 as in As proud as Lucifer These partly show the differences ... idiom is used Besides, chance to share and enjoy learning English idioms with friends teachers had better show students how some of these idioms are used in the media, in newspapers and magazine ... Vietnamese learners the categories, like idioms belonging to topics- Wickedness; Disloyalty- meaning of To pass the buck you can simply say it is similar to Ném for instance Classifying idioms in...
... these strategies can work well in performing an act of encouraging, namely: appreciating someone, reassuring h s feelings, offering help, predicting better future possibilities, suggesting things ... conversation implicature is a message that is not found in the plain sense of the sentence 2.2.5 Issues of politeness and indirectness 2.2.5.1 Theory of politeness He also regards the Politeness ... with Words, Oxford University Press, Oxford.”[24] In this book, he states and discusses performatives and constatatives, conditions for happy performatives, Press.”[36].The study defines speech...
... into ones hands be rubbing ones hands with glee play ones hands for all it is worth lie in ones hands a safe pair of hands sit on ones hands take something / somebody off ones hands wash ones ... village, is as strong as an ox To my knowledge, a horse is as strong as an ox In the first case, the word-group as strong as an ox is not a comparision phrase, it shows a different meaning: very strong ... course, the new way of using will make sense: To my knowledge, a horse is as strong as a camel or a buffalo So the first criteria is the semantic differences of the two word-groups consisting...
... contrast of signs is the study on the inside relationships of languages such as categories, structural systems and so on In practice, CA has its usages as follows: - The ability of discovering ... must be non-restrictive unless we imagine that he is distinguishing her from another of his girl friends who is not beautiful Or - Mary Smith, who is upstairs, wants to see you Who is upstairs ... teaching english noun phrases to Vietnamese learners 4.1 Mistakes in using noun phrases Everyone has his own way of thinking and habit of using words, his national customs and culture That is the...
... This study addresses the three following questions: How people express requests in different situations in letters in English? How are requests used in letters differently in Vietnamese? What is ... expressions, words and structures of requests in Vietnamese as well as English, then work out some affecting factors and politeness strategy of requests Besides, the frequency of using requests in ... of requests, request expressions, words and structures used in requests, the frequency of using requests in English and Vietnamese letters, factors affecting requests and some similarities and...
... or suggestions We may also want to express our wishes, intentions or indicate our feelings about what we are saying In English, we all these things by using a set of verbs called modal verbs or ... seen as a rude or imposing person, disobeying politeness strategies Thats why the speakers often hedge, using modalized phrases such as I think (that), I suppose (that) first to express their subjective ... 54)) In (18), in Vietnamese the words not show any sense of permission but can itself implies permission as this is what Mr Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs Reed when the servants...
... Q-words): who/ whom, whose, what, which, when, where, how and why.” The speaker hopes to have the answer according to the kind of questions In Vietnamese, this type of questions is formed with interrogative ... equivalents within the frame of structures and using negative words Four types of questions will be discussed: Yes-No questions, Tag questions, Whquestions and Alternative questions However, due ... common kind of questions They are also called information questions because the answer to the question requires more than just a Yes- or- No answer Most Wh-questions begin with words that start with...
... medicines in developing countries Increasingly, ensuring such competition will require addressing the challenges posed by more widespread patenting of medicines in developing countries [48] These ... increase consumer welfare by bringing previously unaffordable products within reach In short, tiered pricing of pharmaceuticals has received widespread support as a “win-win-win” approach to addressing ... Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines 2001 [http://utw.msfaccess.org/downloads/ 311] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines: Untangling the web of antiretroviral...