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tion, anda low ApEn value often indicates predictability
and high regularity of time series data, whereas a high
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tion [9]. ... purposes)
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Research
A comparativestudyon approximate entropy measure and
poincaré plot indexes of minimum foot clearance variability in the ... purposes)
Background
Older population make up a large and increasing percent-
age of the population. As people grow older they are
increasingly at risk of falling and consequent injuries.
Approximately...
... categories ofinvitations as speech etiquette in
Vietnamese intermsof speech act theory. The thesis introduced and analyzed two
main categories ofinvitationsinVietnamese including invitations ... Americans andVietnamese share certain similarities intermsof making
and responding to invitationsin social interactions. However, differences are
undoubtedly numerous. Many cases of making invitations ...
misunderstandings, and misinterpretations. A frequently misunderstood area in
American verbal interaction is that of extending, accepting, and refusing invitations
(Levine & Adelman, 1982)....
... this study is carried out by gathering and analyzing the reference
materials, Internet researching which contains a huge, convenient scope of
information as well as my personal knowledge day ... communication,
for better maintaining social relationship and exchanging ideas, people have to
resort to a new different kind of language, which can make distasteful ideas seem
acceptable or ... Euphemizing generally exists in almost every nation all over the world, no
matter how civilized it is. Andin every natural language, both large families of
languages and languages of minorities,...
... is a convivial speech act whose goal coincides with the social goal
of maintaining harmony between the speaker and the hearer." Both definitions of
Brown and Levison and Leech are convenient ... language, and
having to do it ina second or foreign language is even more complicated. The
native speakers ofEnglishandVietnamese share differences and similarities in
terms of giving apologies ...
provide a theory that has an integrated approach to speech acts. Thus, besides
carefully defining the term used in the research and creating an appropriate
taxonomy, social, cultural, and pragmatic...
... for happiness and sadness inEnglishand Vietnamese. Both
languages share “UP, LIGHT, MOTION, A PLANT, A FLUID INA
CONTAINER and MUSIC” metaphors in their conceptualizations of
happiness. ... describing “happiness
and sadness” inEnglishandVietnamese poems, and then give
explanation to these.
- Suggesting some implications for teaching, learning and
translating conceptual metaphors ... is happiness
conceptualized? and how do conceptual representations for this
emotion vary across languages and cultures? Happiness and sadness
are basic and fundamental emotions (Ortony and Turner...
...
Chapter I states common knowledge on speech acts in general, invitation
and rejecting invitation inEnglishandVietnamesein particular.
Chapter II gives the ways of rejecting invitation in ... inEnglishand
Vietnamese and the differences and similarities in rejecting invitation
between Englishand Vietnamese.
The last are survey questionnaires and tips for refusing invitations. ...
appraisals, and the latter include sentencing, bequeathing and appointing. Acts
of both kinds can be performed only in certain ways under certain
circumstances by those in certain institutional...
... Secondly,
for the sake of comparison and contrast, the speech act of making requests is
analyzed to find similarities and differences inVietnameseandEnglishand indicate
some common strategies ... clear for the speakers and hearers to have
suitable responses and avoid some misunderstandings. After comparison and
contrast, politeness strategies in making requests are pointed out and considered ... societies in general and to most English speaking societies in
particular, the principle of distance and non-imposition plays a crucial role in social
interactions. Although there are some ideas that...
... process of investigating materials from various sources, the forms,
characteristics and meanings of idioms and their variants and synonyms inEnglishand
Vietnamese are described and analyzed in ... but negative or neutral inVietnameseand vice
versa, which creates a lot of interests for learners in accessing and analyzing them.
Simile inEnglishandVietnamese - A contrastive analysis ... forms and figurative meanings and reflect their own nation's culture values, including
material and spiritual values.
Idiomatic variants are idioms which have the same meanings and grammatical...