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

MASTER'S THESIS INFORMATION

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. Student recognition decision No. 1528/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 14, 2009 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in training process: no

7. Thesis topic: Presuppositions in negative refutation sentences and their application to teaching Vietnamese to foreigners.

8. Major: Linguistics Code: 602201

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

10. Summary of thesis results:

The thesis has synthesized and provided theoretical bases for presuppositions and negative sentences in Vietnamese.

From the above theories, the thesis has given the conditions for making a negative refutation sentence and the methods of refutation.

These refutation methods are implemented by the constituent refutation agents. This thesis has classified and described the refutation agents and at the same time presented typical refutation models.

The result of the thesis is a synthesis of different refutation models, from which the best model is compared and selected to apply to Vietnamese language teaching curriculum for foreigners.

11. Practical application: Apply teaching negative and rebuttal sentences to foreigners through the typical rebuttal models mentioned above, so that they can understand the meaning of that rebuttal.

12. Further research directions: no

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