TTLV: Subject-Predicate Structure Focusing Phenomenon

Information about the thesis "Initial Survey of the Phenomenon of Focusing on the Subject-Predicate Structure of Vietnamese Sentences" by graduate student Dao Thi Minh Ngoc, majoring in Linguistics.1. Student's Full Name: Dao Thi Minh Ngoc 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of Birth: November 13, 1985 4. Place of Birth: Hai Phong 5. Decision No. 2551/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated November 2, 2007, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, recognizing the student. 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: A Preliminary Survey of the Focusing Phenomenon of Subject-Predicate Structure in Vietnamese Sentences 8. Major: Linguistics. Code: 60 22 01 9. Scientific Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hong Con. 10. Summary of Thesis Results: This thesis studies the focusing phenomenon of subject-predicate structure in Vietnamese sentences. This concept has been mentioned by many linguists in their research works. This is a phenomenon within the realm of pragmatics, a deliberate activity by the speaker using various linguistic means to highlight important and noteworthy information in a text, thereby guiding the listener to correctly perceive the role of that supposedly important information, focusing their attention on it appropriately and processing it accurately. The thesis consists of three chapters: Introduction, Content, and Conclusion. Chapter 1: Research Situation and Theoretical Basis. We present the views of various authors on the information structure of Vietnamese in general and the phenomenon of information focus in particular. We introduce basic concepts such as: information focus, information basis, and the phenomenon of information focus to serve as the basis for research in the following chapters. Chapter 2: Methods of Focusing the Subject-Predicate Structure of Vietnamese Sentences. The basis for identifying information focus is context, presupposition, and the possibility of omitting the basic information in the sentence. Through a survey of 20 works, we analyzed and described common types of focus: affirmative focus, interrogative focus, and contrasting focus. Because Vietnamese is a monosyllabic language, function words and word order play a crucial role in marking the information focus in a sentence. We surveyed three main forms of word order: pre-inversion, post-inversion, and a variant: the passive voice. Chapter 3: The Scope of Focusing the Subject-Predicate Structure of Vietnamese Sentences Based on the position of the focus, we can divide the information structure of Vietnamese sentences into three different types: information structure with the predicate as the focus; information structure with the argument as the focus; and information structure with the sentence as the focus. This division is essential for examining the information content of Vietnamese sentences. It demonstrates the close relationship between information structure and the subject-predicate structure of Vietnamese sentences. In the conclusion, we summarize the results of the survey conducted throughout the thesis. Finally, there is the appendix and references. The appendix contains only selected materials from the 20 works surveyed. 11. Practical applications 12. Future research directions 13. Published works related to the thesis: (list works in chronological order if available)