Luận văn An investigation into the liguistic features of interogative sentences in english and vietnamese communication

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into the liguistic features of interogative sentences in english and vietnamese communication: ...] proposes five categories of Speech Acts: a) Representatives: Commit the speaker to something being the case such as assertions, reports, conclusions, descriptions, and so on. b) Directives: The speaker gets the hearer to do something such as order, request, challenge, invite, and so on. ...t of Face - Saving proposed by Goffman [70,p.74]. For each individual to act in a conversational interaction, there are two aspects of people’s want involved with face [31, p.62-63]. They are negative face and positive face. Positive politeness strategies are used by a speaker to show ap...p (58) “So, when are you leaving, Ken ?” [102, p.64] Wh-word + Aux + S + V (61) “What do you mean ?” [85, p.57] ISs with How: How (long/often/many/...) + be + S + ... (62) “How many people are there in the party ?” [103, p.18] 18 How (long/often/many/...) + Aux + S + V + ... ...