Mood Adjuncts Expressing the degree of Intensity in Sport Commentaries in English vs. Vietnamese in the Perspectives of Systemic Functional Grammar

Abstract

The study aims at investigating Mood Adjuncts expressing the degree of intensity in sport commentaries based mainly on the theory of Appraisal and Functional Grammar. The study also focuses on finding the differences and similarities of Mood Adjuncts expressing intensification in terms of semantic and syntactic features between English and Vietnamese. The findings of this study contribute to the better comprehension in evaluative language used in entertainment context.