AN INVESTIGATION INTO LINGUISTIC DEVICES DENOTING HUMAN FEELINGS IN MODERN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE FILMS

Abstract

This thesis is designed to investigate into linguistic devices denoting human feelings in modern English and Vietnamese films. Via this analysis, this study aims at presenting some linguistic devices which the English and Vietnamese have used to express their feelings in modern films. And through analyzing linguistic devices denoting human feelings, we can understand their important role in films. Furthermore, intonational, inter-cultural linguistic, statistical, semantic features of human feelings in modern English and Vietnamese films are also considered. Finally, the similarities and differences of linguistic devices denoting human feelings between English and Vietnamese in modern films are pointed out.