TTLA: Vietnamese Literary Language in the First Half of the 20th Century: A New Prose Language Through Some Works Written in the Quốc Ngữ Script

INFORMATION ABOUT DOCTORAL THESIS

1. Full name of the doctoral candidate:Nguyen Thi Hoa

2. Gender: Female

3. Born on July 21, 1982

4. Place of birth: Thanh Hoa

5. Decision No. 3076/QD-SDH dated October 28, 2009, of the Director of Hanoi National University, recognizing the doctoral candidate.

6. Changes in the training process: none

7. Thesis title:Vietnamese literary language in the first half of the 20th century: The new prose language through some works of Vietnamese literature written in the national script.

8. Major: Vietnamese Literature Code: 62.22.34.01

9. Scientific supervisor:Prof. Dr. Dinh Van Duc,Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ha Van Duc

10. Summarize the new findings of the thesis.

- Clarify the factors influencing the formation and development of prose language in the first half of the 20th century.

- Identify the innovations in the organizational structure of modern prose texts.

- Identify the basic characteristics of prose language in the first half of the 20th century.

- To draw conclusions about the characteristics of narrative and conversational language through a number of Vietnamese-language literary works from the first half of the 20th century (1930-1945).

 11. Practical applications:

The research findings are highly applicable and can be incorporated into teaching and used as research materials for Literature and Linguistics departments in universities nationwide.

12. Future research directions:

- Research on the language of drama during the period 1930-1945.

- Studying aspects of prose language during the 1930-1945 period (sentence structure, vocabulary, etc.)

13. Published works related to the dissertation:

- Nguyen Thi Hoa (2015), "Some observations on narrative language in Ngo Tat To's works",MagazineEducation and Society(113), pp. 32-35.

- Nguyen Thi Hoa (2015), "A brief overview of some factors influencing the formation and development of Vietnamese literary language in the first half of the 20th century",Proceedings of the scientific conference on Vietnamese Studies – Aspects of Traditional Culture, Volume II, pp. 820-826.

- Nguyen Thi Hoa (2015), "Some observations on Nguyen Cong Hoan's conversational language",Vietnam Literature and Arts Forum Magazine(249), pp.21-25.

INFORMATION ON DOCTORALTHESIS

1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Hoa 2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: July 21, 1982 4. Place of birth: Thanh Hoa

5. Admission decision number: 3076/QD-SDH dated October 28, 2009 of the Director of Vietnam National University

6. Changes in academic process: nope

7. Official thesis title: Vietnamese literary language of the first half of twentieth century: New prose language through a number of literary works of Vietnamese Roman alphabet

8. Major: Vietnamese Literature Code: 62.22.34.01

9. Supervisors: Prof. Dr Dinh Van Duc, Associate Prof. PhD Ha Van Duc

10. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- Clarifying elements which affect the process of formation and development of the prose language of Vietnamese literature in the first half of the twentieth century.

- Identifying the innovations of structures of new prose texts of Vietnamese literature in the first half of twentieth-century.

- Identifying the basic characteristics of the prose language of Vietnamese literature in first half of the twentieth century.

- Providing conclusions about characteristics of the narrative language and conversation language through some national language literary texts in the first half of the twentieth century (1930-1945)

11. Practical applicability, if any:

The study results are highly applicable in teaching, doing research papers for Literature, Faculty of Philology at the University in the country.

12. Further research directions:

- Research into theatrical language in the period of 1930-1945.

- Research into the aspects of prose language in the period of 1930-1945 (sentences, words ...)

13. Thesis-related publications:

- Nguyen Thi Hoa (2015), "A few comments on the language in the creation narrative of Ngo Tat To",Journal of Education and Social Affairs(113), pp.32-35.

- Nguyen Thi Hoa (2015), "The past several factors affecting the formation and development of literary language Vietnam first half of the twentieth century",Proceedings of scientific conferences Vietnam Studies - The complete traditional cultural area, Volume II, pp. 820-826.

- Nguyen Thi Hoa (2015), "A few comments on the language of Nguyen Cong Hoan conversation",Journal of the Vietnam Cultural Forum(249), pp.21-25.