04599cam a22003731a 4500 000035437 11723 20221205141748.0 160105s2015 000 eng LNN eng 420.8 ĐO-N Đoàn,Thị Hồng Nguyễn An investigation into assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges and universities in the usa / Đoàn Thị Hồng Nguyễn;Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Hoa supervisor. 2015 ĐHĐN : ĐHĐN. 91tr . : ; 30cm+. Based on the theories of Speech Acts, this paper aims to investigate assertives in Presidents’ Welcome Messages (PWMs) in an attempt to discover their striking linguistic features in terms of lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects. The method design in the study is qualitative and quantitative combined approach which includes descriptive and inductive methods. The researcher has chosen fifty welcome messages ranged from 200 to 400 words for the study. The sample of an assertive speech act in PWMs is a sentence or a sequence of sentences which convey information about some state of affairs of the world (i.e.tertiary institutions) from the writer (i.e. presidents) to the reader (i.e. perspective learners) to cause some kind of action. Yule [1996] classified representatives or assertives into four types namely statements of fact, assertions, conclusions as well as descriptions. The findings also aim at suggesting some implications for teaching English to Vietnamese learners, especially who are interested in the writing skill. As regards, the findings, in terms of lexical features, assertives consist of a great deal of adjectives and noun phrases to describe the institution strengths. Mottos are also commonly used in these assertives with a wide range of patterns. In terms of syntactic features, the active voice outnumbers the passive voice in this type of discourse. Furthermore, the complex and simple sentences in active forms occur far more frequently than compound and compound-complex sentences. Particularly, parallel structures are used to emphasize the training and research capability of the colleges and universities. With regard to semantic features, there exist four types of assertives in PWMs: assertion, description, statements of fact and conclusion assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges and universities in the usa assertives in presidents presidents’ welcome messages Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Hoa supervosor LNN UDN50 LNN English 420.8 ĐO-N available Error 5001 Not defined in file expand_doc_bib_avail. 1 0 N 0 AN 1 An investigation into assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges Library of UFL VIEW http://catalog.udn.vn:80/F?func=service&doc_library=UDN01&local_base=UDN01&doc_number=000035437&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA TOMTAT_000011642.pdf pdf 000258413 20210803 NTMTHI An investigation into assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges Library of UFL VIEW http://catalog.udn.vn:80/F?func=service&doc_library=UDN01&local_base=UDN01&doc_number=000035437&sequence=000002&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA NOIDUNGLUANVAN_000011644.PDF PDF 000859732 20210803 NTMTHI From the UDN01 UDN50 LNN English 420.8 ĐO-N available Error 5001 Not defined in file expand_doc_bib_avail. 1 0 N 0 AN 1 Monograph Printed language An investigation into assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges Library of UFL VIEW http://catalog.udn.vn:80/F?func=service&doc_library=UDN01&local_base=UDN01&doc_number=000035437&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA TOMTAT_000011642.pdf pdf 000258413 20210803 NTMTHI An investigation into assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges Library of UFL VIEW http://catalog.udn.vn:80/F?func=service&doc_library=UDN01&local_base=UDN01&doc_number=000035437&sequence=000002&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA NOIDUNGLUANVAN_000011644.PDF PDF 000859732 20210803 NTMTHI Mạng thư viện Đại học Đà Nẵng