Luận văn A contrastive analysis of encouraging as a speech act in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn A contrastive analysis of encouraging as a speech act in english and vietnamese: ... Failure of Invitation in English versus Vietnamese”[76]. In the paper, the author presents a contrastive analysis of cross- cultural pragmatic failure in invitation in the both languages. 2.2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.2.1. Pragmatic Competence In a nutshell, pragmatic competence consist...les manipulated in data collection instruments Six most reliable and valid situations were selected from the bank 18 situations provided in the MPQ basing on the constellations and then used in open- ended written questionnaires. These questionnaires are translated into Vietnamese for the Vi...rther more, the use of the suggesting- things to do strategy between two groups is significantly different. In interview- preparation situation, English used only six strategies to encourage other people. Meanwhile, they employed all the eight situations in the love- expressing situation. Th...