Luận văn A discourse analysis of news items on storm damage in english and vietnamese electronic newspapers

Tóm tắt Luận văn A discourse analysis of news items on storm damage in english and vietnamese electronic newspapers: ... 3.1. RESEARCH DESIGN The thesis design is based on the combination of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. 3.2. RESEARCH METHODS With the aim of achieving the set goal, several methods are simultaneously employed such as the descriptive method, the analytic method, the contras...s well as the devastation force of storms. Therefore, the use of evaluative adjectives is considered as a necessity for reporters in order to make the reader pay more attention to the news. Through evaluative adjectives the readers can feel the severity of the storm. That is the reason why e...between sentences in a text and those sentences must follow one after the other. Halliday and Hasan [1976:238] give a scheme of four categories, namely: Additive, Adversative, Causal, Temporal. The findings indicate that the use of conjunction in VNISD is far higher than that in ENISD (67....