TTLV: Predicates in negative sentences and their application to teaching Vietnamese to foreigners.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS

1. Student's full name: Nguyen Thi Kim Hue

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: December 20, 1983

4. Place of birth: Hanoi

5. Decision on student admission No. 1528/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 14, 2009, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in the training process: none

7. Thesis title: Presupposition in negative and refutational sentences and its application to teaching Vietnamese to foreigners.

8. Major: Linguistics Code: 602201

9. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Van Thi, Department of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

10. Summary of the thesis results:

This thesis has synthesized and presented the theoretical basis of presupposition and negative refutation in Vietnamese.

Based on the above theories, the thesis has presented the conditions for making a negative statement and the methods of refutation.

These refutation methods are made possible by the refuting agents they contain. This thesis has classified and described these refuting agents and presented typical refutation models.

The thesis's achievement is the synthesis of various rejection models, allowing for comparison and selection of the best model for application in Vietnamese language teaching for foreigners.

11. Practical applications: This can be used to teach negative and refuting statements to foreigners through the typical refutation models mentioned above, enabling them to understand the meaning of such refutation.

12. Future research directions: none

13. Published works related to the thesis: None

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Kim Hue 2. Sex: Female

3. Place of birth: Hanoi

4. Date of birth: December 20, 1983

5. Admission decision number: 1528/QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH, dated: October 14, 2009.

6. Changes in academic process: No

7. Official thesis title: Pre – supposition in negative sentences and the applications in teaching Vietnamese for foreigners.

8. Major: Linguistics Code: 602201

9. Supervisors: Prof. Doc. Vu Van Thi, Faculty of Vietnamese language and studies

10. Summary of the findings of the thesis:

Giving fundamental theories on Pre – supposition and the summary of the thesis

Pre – supposition in the context of negative sentences and its application for lecturing Vietnamese for foreigners.

The thesis has summarized and presented fundamental theories about Pre – supposition and negation sentences in Vietnamese logic and linguistics.

From the above mentioned theories, conditions have been given out to make a negative sentence and methods.

Those negative methods can be made from negative interaction words which have been classified and described by the thesis as well as typical negative models.

The results that the thesis has achieved are to summarize all the different negative models to compare and select the best models applied to the Vietnamese Textbook for foreigners.

11. Practical applicability: Applicable: Applying those negative sentences through the negative models to make learners understand the negative meanings.

12. Further research directions: No

13. Thesis-related publications: No