TYLA: Research on central-level state administrative management documents from interpersonal relationships and impact functions

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The author's name: Phan Thi Thu Thuy

Thesis title: Research on Government administrative documents of central level from the perspective of interpersonal relations and impact function.

Scientific branch of the thesis: Linguistics

Major: Linguistic Code:62 22 02 40

The name of postgraduate training institution: University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Hanoi National University

1. Thesis purpose and objectives

Thesis purpose:Implementing this topic, the thesis aims to clarify some characteristics of the language of Decree and Circulars from the perspective of discourse analysis. Especially paying attention to language methods and means to indicate interpersonal relations and the impact function of discourse.

Objectives:The research objectives of the thesis are interpersonal relations and impact functions expressed (by what language means, in what manner) in the discourse of Decrees and Circulars as a type of administrative document. Thus, the issues ofinterpersonal relations and linguistic means denoting interpersonal relationstogether withthe impact function and the linguistic means express the impact functionwill be the two main subjects of this thesis.

2. Research methods

To solve the research tasks set out, the thesis uses the following specific methods:

Method of discourse analyzing: Analyzing the traits of organizing the discourse of Decrees and Circulars to implement the process of communication, analyzing interpersonal relations (communication roles, context, power factors, register) and impact function (impact through verbal action, through argument). Analysis of language facilities showing interpersonal relations, impact functions in Decrees and Circulars.

Semantic analysis and pragmatics:The thesis uses pragmatic analysis methods to analyze linguistic elements that show interpersonal relations, impact functions in discourse of Decrees and Circulars.

Method of description:This method is used to describe language expressions, verbal verbs, and emotional factors to express interpersonal relations in Decrees and Circulars. Describe the dominant linguistic behaviors, describe the reasoning structure, the constituent elements of the argument types used in Decrees and Circulars to perform impact functions.

Statistical tactics:Statistics of frequency of making linguistic behaviors in Decrees and Circulars, frequency of using elements in the argument structure of Decrees and Circulars, thereby drawing comments on the number of word units appearing in Decrees and Circulars. This is the basis for describing the analysis and drawing conclusions of the thesis, main results and conclusions.

3. Major results and conclusions

3.1.The major results

- The thesis contributes to clarifying the linguistic characteristics of the Circular and Decree discourse;

- Identify the type of Circular and Decree discourse in terms of language and linguistics, identify and evaluate the characteristics of interpersonal relations, the impact function of the discourse of Decrees and Circulars;

- The thesis also specifies the linguistic implementations of interpersonal relations, impact function of the Decrees and Circulars discourse;

- The thesis also provides information and documents that clarify the theoretical and practical issues of discourse analysis.

- The research results of the thesis proposes solutions to help understand the language used in Circular and Decree, helping document builders use the correct language. The thesis can become a reference for subjects like Vietnamese and Administrative Communication, Skills in developing and issuing State management documents in educational institutions about state management.

3.2.Conclusions

The study of state management documents under the perspective of linguistics still remains many gaps. The system of state management documents includes many types of documents, each type of state management document has a different role and task. Therefore, the linguistic characteristics of each type are also different. The study of the language of State management documents contributes to improving management to achieve the state goals. We hope there will be more research on this area.