A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC EXPORT CONTRACTS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE

Abstract

This thesis has been done in an effort to investigate the standards frequently used by foreigners and Vietnamese people in the course of making economic export contracts by an analysis of economic export contracts in English and Vietnamese. With the examples of economic export contracts in English and Vietnamese collected, we have explored some linguistic features and the similarities and differences of economic export contracts in terms of overall structures, lexical choice and syntax. In some cases, they have slight differences in layout, lexical and syntactic features. The thesis gives some general ideas on how to write EECs, how to choose words to make the EECs as clear, informative and accurate as possible, how to use different types of sentence and connect them naturally as well as how to take the advantage of passive voice to create impression. The result of this study may help entrepreneurs, teachers and students to draw up and understand more economic export contracts. The findings lay the foundations of implications for teaching and learning to achieve better communicative competence.