An investigation into assertives in presidents’ welcome messages on official websites of colleges and universities in the usa
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 quantitat...
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| 语言: | English |
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Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng
2025
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| 总结: | 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. |
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