Trương Đức Minh

Title:  Expansion and its realization in the short story “Runaway” by Alice Munro: from systemic functional grammar perspective = Bành trướng và sự thể hiện của nó trong truyện ngắn Trốn chạy" của Alice Munro: Nghiên cứu theo quan điểm ngữ pháp chức năng hẹ thống Authors:  Hoàng, Văn Vân, Supervisor Vũ, Thị Thảo Issue Date:  2014 Publisher:  ĐHNN Abstract:  40 p. + CD-ROM M.A. Thesis. English Linguistics -- University of Languages and International Studies. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 2014 Electronic Resources URI:  http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/41212 Appears in Collections: ULIS - Master Theses

Title:  Referential equivalence between the English and Vietnamese versions of Lolita" = Đánh giá mức độ tham chiếu của hai bản tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt của tác phẩm "" LOLITA" . M.A. Thesis Linguistics: 60 22 01 01" Authors:  Lê, Hùng Tiến, Supervisor Phạm, Thị Hồng Nhung Issue Date:  2014 Publisher:  ĐHNN Abstract:  45 p. + CD-ROM M.A. Thesis. English Linguistics -- University of Languages and International Studies. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 2014 Electronic Resources URI:  http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/41209 Appears in Collections: ULIS - Master Theses

  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...