A contrastive analysis of English and Vietnamese resignation letters in terms of discourse structure = Phân tích đối chiếu cấu trúc diễn ngôn của đơn thư từ chức trong tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt. M.A Thesis Linguistics: 60 22 02 01
A resignation letter is one kind of business letters, which holds an important role in helping the employee to maintain a positive relationship with his/ her old boss, and paves the way for him or her to move on. However, this kind of letters does not receive much attention from the researchers in English and Vietnamese. Therefore, so as to help people have better understanding of resignation letters and see the similarities and differences in writing style of English and Vietnamese resignation letters, this thesis studies discourse structures of 20 resignation letters (10 in English and 10 in Vietnamese); then compares and contrasts them. The major methods used in this thesis are „move analysis‟ approach, comparison and contrast methods. The result of the study shows that the structures of English and Vietnamese resignation letters are basically similar. They only have some differences in the length of the letters and the kinds of moves. From the result of the analysi...