Thesis information "Survey of modal adjectives in Vietnamese sentences on three levels: Semantics, Semantics, Pragmatics" by HVCH Tran Hoang Huong, majoring in Linguistics.1. Full name of student: Tran Hoang Huong 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: November 6, 1986 4. Place of birth: Nam Dinh City 5. Decision to recognize student No.: 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 24, 2008 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 6. Changes in the training process: None 7. Thesis topic: Survey of modal adjectives in Vietnamese sentences on 3 levels: Conclusion, Semantics, Pragmatics. 8. Major: Linguistics. Code: 602201 9. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Hiep, Deputy Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. 10. Summary of the results of the thesis: - In terms of theory: This thesis follows the direction of functional grammar - one of the priority grammar schools, interested in language in its functional activities, currently one of the central grammar trends of world linguistics. The results of the thesis will contribute to consolidating the correctness and explanatory and descriptive capacity of this grammar school. By applying modern grammar theory to specific examples in language communication activities, the thesis will also contribute to consolidating grammar theory or discovering new and different features in the rules of speech activities compared to the rules of language activities. Thus, this is the first step, the beginning of our research on speech grammar in the future. - In terms of practice: The study of Modal Adjectives is not a new point in Vietnamese linguistics. Linguists have called this element with different names such as: Modal Idiom, Modal Subject, Modal Adjunct... However, the new point of the thesis is to focus on clarifying this element in all 3 aspects: structure, semantics and pragmatics. Also in the process of survey and analysis, we found some cases that have the same modal content but different levels. Clarifying these differences also contributes to clarifying the operating principles of this element in sentences and in communication. At the same time, it helps researchers have a more comprehensive view of this element as a sentence element. 11. Practical applicability: The research results of the topic will also be helpful in compiling grammar textbooks for Vietnamese people and foreigners from a communicative perspective. 12. Published works related to the thesis: Graduation thesis: Initial survey of sentences with “thì” and “là” at the top in 3 aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics, was published in July 2008.
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full male: TRAN HOANG HUONG 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: November 6, 1986 4. Palace of birth: Nam Dinh 5. Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QD- XHNV- KH& SDH Dated October 24, 2008. 6. Changes in academic process: No 7. Official thesis title: Researching stative predicate in Vietnamese sentences on three planes: Syntactics, Semantics and Pragmatics. 8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 602201 10. Supervisors: Prof. Dr Nguyen Van Hiep- Deputy head of linguistic department 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: - Theoritical achivements : This thesis embraces Fuctional Grammar – one of the grammar preferential schools regarding language in its functions - which is one of the central grammatically trends of the world's modern linguistics. The thesis's result is aimed at consolidating the rightness and the ability to explain and to describe of this trend. By applying modern grammar theories to go over specific cases in communication, the thesis contributes to consolidate grammar theory or find out new differences between fucntional rules of speech and language. This is our first steps of researching grammar of speech afterwards. - Practical Achivements : Stative predicate research is not fresh news in Vietnamese linguistics. The experts call this object by various terms like: stative locution, or stative adverbial locution. However, this thesis is the first one to study the component in all three aspects: structure, semantics and function. During the process of investigation and analysis we have found out some situations with the same stative meaning at different levels. The explanation of this variety also contributes to further clarify the functional rules of this component in phrase and communication. This also helps the researchers to have a more comprehensive view of the stative predicate as component of a phrase. 12. Practical applicability: The thesis's results are useful for compiling Vietnamese grammar textbook for communication. 13. Thesis-related publications: Initial investigation of phrases starting with “ thi”, “la” in 3 aspects : syntactics, semantical and functional, “ released July 2008
