An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese

This thesis is designed to investigate some semantic and syntactic features of behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in English and Vietnamese. Some concepts and terms related to this linguistic area have also been dealt with. A comparative is carried out to explore the sim...

Fuld beskrivelse

Đã lưu trong:
Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Tôn Nữ Khoa Bảo
Andre forfattere: Phan Văn Hòa
Format: Luận văn
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ 2025
Fag:
Online adgang:https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1672
Tags: Tilføj Tag
Ingen Tags, Vær først til at tagge denne postø!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ - Đại học Đà Nẵng
id oai:data.ufl.udn.vn:UFL-1672
record_format dspace
institution Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ - Đại học Đà Nẵng
collection DSpace
language English
topic An investigation, into behavioural, metabehavioural verbs, denoting verbal processes, in english and vietnamese
spellingShingle An investigation, into behavioural, metabehavioural verbs, denoting verbal processes, in english and vietnamese
Tôn Nữ Khoa Bảo
An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
description This thesis is designed to investigate some semantic and syntactic features of behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in English and Vietnamese. Some concepts and terms related to this linguistic area have also been dealt with. A comparative is carried out to explore the similarities and differences in thee use of these verbs in the two language systems. In addition, it gives the implications in teaching and learning English as a foreign language.
author2 Phan Văn Hòa
author_facet Phan Văn Hòa
Tôn Nữ Khoa Bảo
format Thesis
author Tôn Nữ Khoa Bảo
author_sort Tôn Nữ Khoa Bảo
title An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
title_short An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
title_full An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
title_fullStr An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
title_full_unstemmed An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
title_sort investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese
publisher Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ
publishDate 2025
url https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1672
_version_ 1848488644520706048
spelling oai:data.ufl.udn.vn:UFL-16722025-03-19T03:39:22Z An investigation into behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in english and vietnamese LV ThS 307 Tôn Nữ Khoa Bảo Phan Văn Hòa An investigation, into behavioural, metabehavioural verbs, denoting verbal processes, in english and vietnamese This thesis is designed to investigate some semantic and syntactic features of behavioural and metabehavioural verbs denoting verbal processes in English and Vietnamese. Some concepts and terms related to this linguistic area have also been dealt with. A comparative is carried out to explore the similarities and differences in thee use of these verbs in the two language systems. In addition, it gives the implications in teaching and learning English as a foreign language. TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ..................................................................i ABSTRACT ................................................ .........................................................ii TABLE OF CONTENTS............................... ....................................................iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS............................ ...............................................vi LIST OF TABLES.................................................. ..........................................vii LIST OF SYMBOLS.................................................. .........................................ix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Rationale 1 1.2. Significance of the Study........................................................ ...............3 1.3. Scope of the Study 4 1.4. Research Questions 4 1.5. Definition of Terms 5 1.6. Organization of the Study 5 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 6 2.1. A Review of Previous Studies Related to the Topic 6 2.2. Theoretical Background 8 2.2.1. Language and Context 8 2.2.2. Metafunctions 10 2.2.2.1. Ideational Metafunction 10 2.2.2.2. Interpersonal Metafunction 11 2.2.2.3. Textual Metafunction 12 2.2.3. The Grammar of Experiential Meaning: Transitivity Structures 13 2.2.3.1. Process, Participant and Circumstance 13 2.2.3.2. Process Types 18 2.2.4. Verbal Processes in English and Vietnamese 24 2.2.4.1. Structure of a Verbal Process 24 2.2.4.2. Components of Verbal Processes 25 2.2.5. Summary 33 CHAPTER 3: METHOD AND PROCEDURE 35 3.1. Aims and Objectives 35 3.1.1. Aims 35 3.1.2. Objectives 35 3.2. Research Design 36 3.3. Research Method 36 3.4. Data Collection 37 3.5. Data Analysis 37 3.6. Reliability and Validity 38 CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSIONS OF FINDINGS 39 4.1. Findings 39 4.1.1. Identifying Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in English and Vietnamese 39 4.1.1.1. Identifying Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in English 39 4.1.1.2. Identifying Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in Vietnamese 43 4.1.2. Semantic Features of Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in English 45 4.1.2.1. Lexical Semantics of Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in English 46 4.1.2.2. The Participants Involved in Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in English 49 4.1.3. Semantic Features of Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in Vietnamese 54 4.1.3.1. Lexical Semantics of Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in Vietnamese 54 4.1.3.2. The Participants Involved in Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in Vietnamese 58 4.1.4. Syntactic Features of Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in English 61 4.1.5. Syntactic Features of Behavioural and Metabehavioural Verbs Denoting Verbal Processes in Vietnamese 66 4.2. Discussions 70 4.2.1. Similarities 70 4.2.1.1. Semantic Features 71 4.2.1.2. Syntactic Features 72 4.2.2. Differences 73 4.2.2.1. Semantic Features 73 4.2.2.2. Syntactic Features 74 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS 76 5.1. Concluding Remarks 76 5.2. Implications for Teaching English as Foreign Language 77 5.3. Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Study 78 REFERENCES 79 QUYẾT ĐỊNH GIAO ĐỀ TÀI (Bản sao) APPENDIX 1.................................................... .......................................................85 APPENDIX 2.............. 2025-03-19T03:39:17Z 2025-03-19T03:39:17Z 2009 Thesis https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1672 en application/msword application/msword application/msword Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ