A discourse analysis of interviews in sport in English and Vietnamese
INTRODUCTION
In terms of today’s information explosion, the interview genre becomes increasingly significant in press because it has the ability to exploit information the most objectively and the truest. Today’s readers’ needs for information , therefore, are supplied and sastified.
Doing sports or watching sports are means of entertainment that attracts a huge of people and audiences both in Vietnam and in the world, essentially in recent years. Every competition receives so many comments and opinions from the audiences, from the coaches or from the athletes themselves. Thanks to the interviews, we have a multiple perspective about each competition. However, the interview in entertainment in general and the interview in sport in particular is a special genre of discourse and it has its own linguistic features. It could be free language use without a framework or the rules so they could be interesting and complex.
For all the above reasons I decide to research on the topic “A discourse analysis of interviews in sport in English and Vietnamese”.
The study aims at analyzing the discourse features of the interviews in sport in English and Vietnamese to find out the characteristics in terms of the layouts, lexical features, syntactic features and cohesive devices of sport interview language. The study is restricted to draw the similarities and the differences of discourse features of the two languages to help learners have a better understanding of the sport interview language both in English and Vietnamese.
The objectives of the study are:
– to analyze the discourse features used in sport interview such as the layout, lexical features, syntactic features and cohesive devices.
– to point out and explain the similarities and differences of discourse features between English and Vietnamese interviews in sport.
– to put suggestions to the Vietnamese learners as well as for those who are concerned with the interview language of sport in English and Vietnamese at discourse level.
Within the limitations of the thesis and due to lack of time, this thesis just focuses on the layout, lexical features, syntactic features and cohesive devices in English and Vietnamese sport interviews.
- What are the discourse features of the interviews in sport in terms of the layout, lexical features, syntactic features and cohesive devices in English?
- What are the discourse features of the interviews in sport in terms of the layout, lexical features, syntactic features and cohesive devices in Vietnamese?
- What are the similarities and differences in terms of the layout, lexical features, syntactic features and cohesive devices of sport interviews between the two languages?
1.5. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The study is expected to be able to provide useful knowledge or understanding of discourse features of interviews in sport in English and Vietnamese to help learners enable better use of the interview languages in English and Vietnamese.
1.6. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
The study is organized into five chapters as follows.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review and Theoretical Background
Chapter 3: Methodology and Procedures of the Study
Chapter 4: Findings and Discussions
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Implications
CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Discourse analysis has attracted a lot of attention, concern and interest of a large number of linguists and researchers. There are so many studies have dealt with a wide range of this field such as coherence, cohesion, context, conversation analysis, information structure, speech act theory, topic, and so on.There also have been a lot of famous scholars who were interested in this field such as Brown and Yule [3] with “Discourse Analysis”, Halliday and Hasan with “Cohesion in English”, Nunan [20] with “Introducing Discourse Analyis” or Hatch [14] with “Discourse and Language Education”. In genaral, these linguists provide us with an overall picture of theoretical background of how to examine language in use.
In Vietnamese, there are also many master theses researchers on discourse analysis in different fields such as Bui Thị Thu Ha [4] with “An investigation into some discourse features of abstracts of English and Vietnamese economic papers”, or Do Thi Loan [9] with “Discourse analysis of the newspaper review of the entertainment shows in English and Vietnamese”, ect.
However, up to now, there have not been any studies in the discourse analysis of the interviews in sport in English and Vietnamese. Therefore, this thesis is conducted to contribute to the whole picture of this field.
a. Concepts of Discourse
Discourse is the term widely used in a number of different disciplines and schools of thoughts with different purposes. Focusing on the form and syntax of discourse, some scholars consider discourse as a coherent unit including more than one sentence. In this thesis the discourse analysis is limited to linguistic features only, that is, it explore the written record of interviews in sports in order to find out the layout, lexis, syntax and cohesive devices are used to construct this type.
b. Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is the study of how language is used in a certain context of situation and what linguistic means are used to carry out linguistic purposes. In this research, the discourse analysis of interviews in sports is limited to linguistic features to find out their layouts, lexical choices, syntactic features and stylistic devices.
Discourse can be categorized in many different ways, one of which is the classification of discourse into spoken and written forms, which are distinguished from each other by the means of paralinguistic and extralinguistic factors as well as distinctive linguistic features.
- 2.2.3. Cohesion and Coherence in Discourse
- Cohesion
In general, cohesion refers to the formal relationship that causes texts to coherence or stick together. It is indicated by grammatical, logical and lexical relationships found among or between the sentences of a text. There are many views on cohesion, but in this thesis we take the view of Halliday and Hasan, which is how words and expressions are connected by using cohesive devices which categorized into five different types: Reference, substitution, ellipsis (these are three types called grammatical cohesion), lexical cohesion and conjunction (borderline between grammatical and lexical cohesion).
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