“A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.

“A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.

This paper examined the discourse features of English speeches delivered by rectors at the new academic year ceremonies of colleges and universities in terms of layout, lexical features, syntactic features, cohesive devices and stylistic devices. In general, knowledge of discourse is of great...

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Главный автор: Lê Thị Nhã Tâm
Другие авторы: NGUYỄN THỊ QUỲNH HOA, Ph. D.
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Опубликовано: Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng 2025
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description This paper examined the discourse features of English speeches delivered by rectors at the new academic year ceremonies of colleges and universities in terms of layout, lexical features, syntactic features, cohesive devices and stylistic devices. In general, knowledge of discourse is of great importance in order to avoid misunderstanding as well as confusion. From the description as well as a full analysis on the features mentioned above, we will draw an overall picture of English speeches delivered by rectors at the new academic year ceremonies of colleges and universities. It is hoped that the results of the study will serve as an access to a profound understanding of this kind of speech in English. The study will help Vietnamese learners of English to write good speeches like this as well as improve their writing skill
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“A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.
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title “A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.
title_short “A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.
title_full “A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.
title_fullStr “A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.
title_full_unstemmed “A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”.
title_sort “a discourse analysis of english speeches delivered by rectors at the new academic year ceremonies of colleges and universities”.
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spelling oai:data.ufl.udn.vn:UFL-18502025-03-19T04:45:06Z “A Discourse Analysis of English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at The New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities”. LV ThS 423 Lê Thị Nhã Tâm NGUYỄN THỊ QUỲNH HOA, Ph. D. This paper examined the discourse features of English speeches delivered by rectors at the new academic year ceremonies of colleges and universities in terms of layout, lexical features, syntactic features, cohesive devices and stylistic devices. In general, knowledge of discourse is of great importance in order to avoid misunderstanding as well as confusion. From the description as well as a full analysis on the features mentioned above, we will draw an overall picture of English speeches delivered by rectors at the new academic year ceremonies of colleges and universities. It is hoped that the results of the study will serve as an access to a profound understanding of this kind of speech in English. The study will help Vietnamese learners of English to write good speeches like this as well as improve their writing skill TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................1 1.1. RATIONALE..................................................................................................1 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ................................................2 1.2.1 Aims o00000.f the study.......................................................................2 1.2.2 Objectives of the study .........................................................................3 1.3. SCOPE OF THE STUDY...............................................................................3 1.4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS.............................................................................3 1.5. SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY.........................................................................3 1.6. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY.............................................................4 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND...................................................................................................6 2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW.................................................................................6 2.2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND................................................................8 2.2.1. Text and Discourse ..............................................................................8 2.2.2 Concepts of Dicourse Analysis...........................................................10 2.2.3. Written and Spoken Discourse ..........................................................11 2.2.4. Common types of sentences ..............................................................12 2.2.5. Cohesion and Coherence ...................................................................13 2.2.6 Stylistics..............................................................................................16 2.2.7 English Speeches Delivered by Rectors at the New Academic Year Ceremonies of Colleges and Universities....................................................19 CHAPTER 3. METHODS AND PROCEDURES ..........................................20 3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN ...................................................................................20 3.2 RESEARCH METHODS...............................................................................20 3.3 DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLES.....................................................................21 3.4 DATA COLLECTION...................................................................................21 3.5 DATA ANALYSIS........................................................................................22 3.6 RESEARCH PROCEDURES........................................................................22 3.7 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY.................................................................23 CHAPTER 4. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ............................................24 4.1. LAYOUT FEATURES OF ESRCs ..............................................................24 4.1.1 Introduction Section............................................................................30 4.1.2 Body Section.......................................................................................33 4.1.3 Conclusion Section .............................................................................37 4.2. LEXICAL CHOICES IN ESRCS.................................................................39 4.2.1 Lexical Choices in Introduction Section. ...........................................39 4.2.2 Lexical Choices in Body Section........................................................40 4.2.3 Lexical Choices in Conclusion Section ..............................................44 4.3 SYNTACTIC FEATURES IN ESRCs..........................................................45 4.4 COHESIVE DEVICES IN ESRCs................................................................47 4.4.1 Grammatical Cohesive in ESRCs.......................................................48 4.4.2 Lexical Cohesion in ESRCs................................................................55 4.5 STYLISTIC DEVICES..................................................................................59 4.5.1 Rhetorical Questions in ESRCs..........................................................60 4.5.2 Quotation in ESRCs............................................................................62 4.5.3 Repetition in ESRCs...........................................................................63 4.5.4 Alliteration in ESRCs.........................................................................66 4.5.5 Antithesis in ESRCs ...........................................................................67 4.6 SUMMARY ...................................................................................................69 CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS...............................70 5.1 CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................70 5.2 IMPLICATIONS............................................................................................72 5.3 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY..................................................73 REFERENCES...................................................................................................75 QUYẾT ĐỊNH GIAO ĐỀ TÀI LUẬN VĂN THẠC SĨ (BẢN SAO) 2025-03-19T04:45:01Z 2025-03-19T04:45:01Z 2014 Thesis https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1850 en application/pdf application/pdf Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng

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