A study of repetition in english and vietnamese folk songs

Abstract

This study investigated into the stylistic features of repetition in English and Vietnamese folk songs. With the analysis of 200 folk songs including 400 samples of typical repetition along with the statistic information, this study will provide an in-depth analysis of linguistic features of repetition in English Folk Songs and Vietnamese Folk Songs. Then we will compare the similarities and differences of linguistic features of repetition in folk songs of two nations. We found that English and Vietnamese share a lot of entities in the mappings concerning the use of repetition by composers. Basing on the findings and results of this study, some implications for the teaching and learning of English, translation work as well as composing songs will also be suggested. Hopefully, the result of the study can be somewhat beneficial for the teaching and learning of English. This study may also be helpful for the readers of English.