Luận văn A study on syntactic and pragmatic features of thank-Givings in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn A study on syntactic and pragmatic features of thank-Givings in english and vietnamese: ...nd contrastive methods to describe and analyze the syntactic and pragmatic features of thank- givings in English and Vietnamese. The quantitative approach is also used in order to summarize the frequency of structures used for thank-givings. The similarities and differences between the two ...pronoun that can be used to show the power relationship between the speakers and the hearers such as con – bà, em – cậu, con – ông... while in English there is only a pair of pronoun I – you. For instances, Thirdly, Pseudo-subject structure of thank-givings in declarative is absent in Viet..., teacher to thank students, older people to thank younger ones. However, in Vietnamese, people in higher positions or older people are not normally expected to thank those in lower positions or to thank younger people. Thirdly, English speakers use personal names in expressing thanking ...