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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.advisor | NGUYỄN VĂN LONG, Ph.D | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Bùi Thị Chung | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-19T04:41:52Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-19T04:41:52Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1842 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | A contrastive analysis of job application letters in English and Vietnamese is a study of how job application letter is structured and which linguistic features are typical in this genre. This analysis focuses on exploiting five aspects: the moves, lexical features, syntactic features, cohesive devices and politeness strategies and making comparison to find out the similarities and differences of these features between two languages. At the same time, the thesis suggests some implications and suggestions. Hopefully, the study can help English students and job seekers, to some extent, in the awareness of the moves and the employment of typical lexical, grammatical features and cohesive devices as well as some politeness strategies in creation of a winning and effective job application letters to avoid any unnecessary mistakes. In addition, it is hoped that the study can be of some help to teachers and students in the course of teaching and learning English and Vietnamese for specific purposes. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ................................................................ i ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............................................................................iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................... vii LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1. Rationale .................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Aims and Objectives ................................................................................. 3 1.3. Scope of the Study .................................................................................... 3 1.4. Research Questions ................................................................................... 4 1.5. Organization of the Study ......................................................................... 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1. Review of Prior Studies ............................................................................ 6 2.2. Theoretical Background .......................................................................... 10 2.2.1. Discourse and Discourse analysis ................................................... 10 a. Concepts of Discourse ..................................................................... 10 b. Concepts of Discourse Analysis ...................................................... 12 2.2.2. Text & Context ................................................................................ 13 a. Text ................................................................................................... 13 b. Context ............................................................................................. 14 2.2.3. Cohesion & Coherence ................................................................... 15 a. The concept of Cohesion .................................................................. 15 b. Coherence ........................................................................................ 18 2.2.4. Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory ........................................ 19 2.2.5. General description of job application letters ................................. 22 iv CHAPTER 3: METHOD AND PROCEDURE 3.1. Research Design ...................................................................................... 24 3.2. Research Methods ................................................................................... 24 3.3. Data Collection ........................................................................................ 25 3.4. Data Analysis .......................................................................................... 25 3.5. Research Procedures ............................................................................... 26 3.6. Reliability and Validity ........................................................................... 26 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Move Analysis .......................................................................................... 27 4.1.1. Bhatia’s Moves Analysis for Promotional Genre ........................... 27 4.1.2. Schematic structure ......................................................................... 27 4.1.3. Discussion ....................................................................................... 37 a. Central and peripheral moves .......................................................... 37 b. Average number of moves per letter and preferred sequence of moves .............................................................................................. 39 4.2. Lexical Choice ........................................................................................ 39 4.2.1. Addressing Terms and Personal Pronouns ...................................... 39 4.2.2. Modal Verbs .................................................................................... 43 4.2.3. Evaluative Adjectives ...................................................................... 49 4.2.4. Time Expressions ............................................................................ 51 4.2.5. Proper Nouns .................................................................................. 54 4.2.6. Similarities and Differences between EJALs and VJALs in Term of Lexical Choice .......................................................................................... 56 a. Similarities ....................................................................................... 57 b. Differences ....................................................................................... 57 4.3. Syntactic Features ................................................................................... 58 4.3.1. Kinds of sentences .......................................................................... 58 v 4.3.2. Voice ................................................................................................ 64 4.3.3. Imperative Mood ............................................................................. 70 4.3.4. Conditional sentences ..................................................................... 74 a. Types of conditionals ....................................................................... 74 b. Imperative conditional sentences ..................................................... 74 4.3.5. Similarities and Differences between EJALs & VJALs in terms of Syntactic Features ..................................................................................... 77 a. Similarities ....................................................................................... 77 b. Differences ....................................................................................... 78 4.4. Cohesive Devices .................................................................................... 79 4.4.1. Grammatical cohesion .................................................................... 79 a. Reference .......................................................................................... 79 b. Substitution ...................................................................................... 85 c. Conjunction ...................................................................................... 87 d. Grammatical Cohesion in EJALs and VJALs ................................. 91 4.4.2. Lexical cohesion ............................................................................. 91 4.4.3. Similarities and Differences between EJALs and VJALs in Term of Cohesive Devices ............................................................................ 96 a. Similarities ....................................................................................... 97 b. Differences ....................................................................................... 97 4.5. Politeness Strategies ................................................................................ 98 4.5.1. Negative politeness strategies in English application letters .......... 98 a. Indirectness ...................................................................................... 98 b. Modals .............................................................................................. 99 c. Formulaic expressions as a negative politeness strategy ............... 100 d. Expressing appreciation ................................................................. 101 4.5.2. Positive politeness strategies ........................................................ 102 vi a. Directness ....................................................................................... 102 b. Be optimistic .................................................................................. 103 4.5.3. Similarities and Differences of Politeness Strategies in EJALs and VJALs ........................................................................................................... 104 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 5.1. Conclusion ............................................................................................. 106 5.2. Implications ........................................................................................... 108 5.3. Limitations ............................................................................................ 110 5.4. Recommendation ................................................................................... 110 REFERENCES ........................................................................................... 112 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng | en_US |
| dc.title | A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF JOB APPLICATION LETTERS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | LV ThS 420 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Ngôn ngữ Anh | |
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