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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DO KIM PHUONG AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRUCTURE AND MEANING OF GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS AS A GENRE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE NGHIÊN CỨU CẤU TRÚC VÀ NGỮ NGHĨA CÁC GIÁO TRÌNH ĐỊA CHẤT NHƯ MỘT THỂ LOẠI TRONG TIẾNG ANH VÀ TIẾNG VIỆT LUẬN ÁN TIẾN SĨ NGÀNH TIẾNG ANH Hanoi, 2012 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DO KIM PHUONG AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRUCTURE AND MEANING OF GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS AS A GENRE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE NGHIÊN CỨU CẤU TRÚC VÀ NGỮ NGHĨA CÁC GIÁO TRÌNH ĐỊA CHẤT NHƯ MỘT THỂ LOẠI TRONG TIẾNG ANH VÀ TIẾNG VIỆT Field: English Linguistics Code: 62.01 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION OF ENGLISH Supervisor: Prof. HOANG VAN VAN Hanoi, 2012 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………….…vi List of tables and figures………………………………………….viii PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study………………………………………………………. Aim and Scope of the study……………………………………………….

Design of the study……………………………………………………….9 PART II: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUNDS 1. Genre and genre analysis……………………………………………. The notion of genre………………………………………………. Genre in folklore studies……………………………………………….

Genre in linguistics…………………………………………. Genre in rhetoric……………………………………………………. Approaches to genre…………………………………………………………. Genre and language study…………………………………………………….

Systemic- functional approach to language study……………………. The Transitivity system…………………………………. The Mood system…………………………………. The Theme system……………………………………….……52 CHAPTER 2: GENERIC STRUCTURE AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS 2.

Generic structure of English geological textbooks………………….53 II LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. The organization of English geological textbooks…………. Generic features of English geological textbooks………………………. Generic structure of the Introduction Parts…………………………….

Generic structure of the Body Parts…………………………………. Classifying or decomposing……………………………………………. The organization of the Body Parts………………………………. Linguistic features of English geological textbooks……………………….

Transitivity analysis of Introduction Parts and Body Parts………………. Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts…………………. Transitivity analysis of the Body Parts………………………. Mood analysis of Introduction Parts and Body Parts…………….

Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts………………. Mood analysis of the Body Parts……………. Thematic analysis of Introduction Parts and Body Parts…………. Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts…………………………….

Thematic analysis of the Body Parts……………………….96 CHAPTER 3: GENERIC STRUCTURE AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF VIETNAMESE GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS 3. Generic structure of Vietnamese geological textbooks……………………. The organization of Vietnamese geological textbooks…………………. Generic features of Vietnamese geological textbooks…………………….

Generic structure of the Introduction Parts………………………………101 3. Generic structure of the Body Parts…………………………………. Classifying or decomposing…………………………………….105 III LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. The organization of the Body Parts…………………………….

Linguistic features of Vietnamese geological textbooks………………. Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts and the Body Parts……. Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts…………………………. Transitivity analysis of the Body Parts…………………………….

Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts and the Body Parts…………. Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts……………………………. Mood analysis of the Body Parts………………………………. Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts and the Body Parts …….

Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts……………………………. Thematic analysis of the Body Parts………………………………….130 CHAPTER 4: COMPARISON BETWEEN ENGLISH GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS AND VIETNAMESE GEOLOGICAL TEXTBBOOKS 4. The overall generic structure of English and Vietnamese geological textbooks………………………………………………. Comparison of the Introduction Parts …………………………….

Comparison of the Body Parts …………………………………………. Comparison of thematic structure of English and Vietnamese geological Introduction Parts and Body Parts…………………………. Comparison of thematic structure in English and Vietnamese clauses in different metafunctions……………………………………………………. The boundary between Theme and Rheme in English and Vietnamese clauses………………………………………………………………………….144 IV LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.

Comparison of thematic structure. Comparison of thematic structure in terms of markedness…………. Comparison of thematic structure in terms of realization……………. Discussion of the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese geological textbooks…………………………………………………………….

Generic and linguistic similarities……………………………. Generic and linguistic differences……………………………………….174 PART III: CONCLUSION…………………………………………………….……183 V LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com FIGURES AND TABLES CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Figure 1. The relationship between text and context 22 Figure 1. Genre and register in relation to language 23 Figure 1.

A simplified model of the English Process System, with major 37 Participant roles Figure 1. Mood system 42 Figure 1. Theme in English 51 CHAPTER 2: GENERIC STRUCTURE AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS Table 2. Distribution of moves in the five English Introduction Parts 58 Table 2.

Combination of four-move introduction structure and the 69 process type Table 2. The Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 71 clause) Table 2. The Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 72 percentage) Table 2.The Transitivity analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by clause) 79 Table 2. The Transitivity analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 79 percentage) Table 2.

The Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 82 clause) Table 2. The Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 83 percentage) Table 2. The Mood analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by clause) 85 Table 2. The Mood analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 85 percentage) Table 2.

The Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 89 VIII LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com clause) Table 2. The Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 90 percentage) Table 2. The Thematic analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by clause) 95 Table 2. The Thematic analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 95 percentage) CHAPTER 3: GENERIC STRUCTURE AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF VIETNAMESE GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS Table 3.

Distribution of moves in the English Introduction Parts 101 Table 3. Combination of four-move introduction structure and the 110 process type Table 3. The Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 112 clause). The Transitivity analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 112 percentage) Table 3.

The Transitivity analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 117 clause) Table 3. The Transitivity analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 117 percentage) Table 3. The Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 119 clause) Table 3. The Mood analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 120 percentage) Table 3.

The Mood analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by clause) 121 Table 3. The Mood analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 122 percentage) Table 3. The Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 124 clause) Table 3. The Thematic analysis of the Introduction Parts (illustrated by 125 percentage) IX LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.

The Thematic analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by clause) 129 Table 3. The Thematic analysis of the Body Parts (illustrated by 130 percentage) CHAPTER 4: COMPARISON BETWEEN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE GEOLOGICAL TEXTBOOKS Table 4. Total number of clauses in English and Vietnamese Introduction 134 Parts Table 4. Comparison of frequency of Processes in the English and 134 Vietnamese Introduction Parts Table 4.

Linguistic features of the English and Vietnamese Introduction 136 Parts Table 4. Total number of clauses in English and Vietnamese Body Parts 138 Table 4. Linguistic features of the English and Vietnamese Body Parts 140 Table 4. Examples of Theme-Rheme structure in English and Vietnamese 143 Table 4.

Most common Modal Adjuncts functioned as interpersonal 146 Themes in English geological textbooks Table 4. Most common Modal Adjuncts functioned as interpersonal 148 Themes in Vietnamese geological textbooks Table 4. Most common Conjunctive Adjuncts functioned as textual 149 Themes in English geological textbooks Table 4. Most common Conjunctions functioned as textual Themes in 151 Vietnamese geological textbooks Table 4.

Combination of textual and interpersonal Themes in English 153 geological textbooks Table 4. Combination of textual and interpersonal Themes in 153 Vietnamese geological textbooks Table 4. Similarities and differences between types of Themes in 154 English and Vietnamese clauses as of different metafunctions Table 4. Unmarked Themes in English and Vietnamese geological 157 textbooks X LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.

Marked Themes in English and Vietnamese geological 157 textbooks Table 4. Fronted Predicators function as the unmarked Themes in 158 Vietnamese declarative clauses Table 4. Realization of Subject Themes in English and Vietnamese 159 geological textbooks Table 4. Realization of Complement Themes in English and Vietnamese 161 geological textbooks Table 4.

Types of Themes and their realizations in English and 164 Vietnamese geological declarative clauses XI LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. RATIONALE OF THE STUDY Geology is the science of the history of Earth‘s evolution. It is based, first, on observations of the Earth itself and other planetary bodies, but the application of such sciences as biology, chemistry, physics, and materials sciences is also required to understand the processes we observe. Geology differs from these other sciences in at least three ways.

First, geology is fundamentally a historically oriented science dealing with processes that for the most part occur on a time scale that is immense compared with human lives. Thus, it is impossible to observe an entire process directly; we can see only what is happening at a single geological instant in time. Because of this constraint, the inference of geologic processes relies heavily upon the fundamental assumption that spatial variation can be interpreted as temporal evolution. In other words, we assume that the same process can be found in various stages of advancement in different places and that therefore we can piece together observations made in different places to infer a temporal evolution of that process.

Second, geology deals with large-scale and complex systems for which controlled experiments are difficult if not impossible to construct. Thus, the observation and description of natural features acquire proportionately more importance than they have in most other sciences. Third, the fact that geologic evidence is fragmentary and incomplete makes any of the inferences drawn from the data non-unique and highly dependent upon our intuition and experience. Despite these differences, the methods employed by geologists to investigate the Earth are philosophically much the same as those used in other realms of science.

1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Concerning the discourse of geology, it remains a separate subject area, with a focus on natural geological phenomena and events. For the most part its discourse is indistinguishable from that used in science, the main difference being the absence of experiments to illustrate the scientific world view constructed in introductory textbooks. Geology as explained to students is very explicit about its goals. The three stages geologists have to deal with are: to observe, order and explain the experiential world.

From the point of view of ESP teaching and learning, geological textbooks in English and Vietnamese have never been exploited by any Vietnamese linguists so far. It is presumably clear that to be effective, such an adaptation must be firmly based on understanding of the specific genre in the target language, in terms not only of the surface linguistic features but also of the discourse conventions, and the underlying scientific values, which must certainly be dependent on an empirical investigation. Given the necessity with ESP teaching and learning, this study sets out to investigate the structure and meaning of geological textbooks as a genre in English and Vietnamese using the theories of systemic – functional grammar as theoretical framework. The theory of systemic functional linguistics was originally formulated by M.

Halliday in the early 1960s. From its very beginning, systemic functional linguistics has been marked by its recognition that all languages take place in the context of a social situation, that the situation has an impact on the nature and the meaning of the language used and that any account of language must therefore include reference to that context of use. With the increasing international interest in the functional nature of language and in the linguistic analysis of texts much of work about the systemic functional model, both from practical and theoretical perspective has been done by systemicists such as Berry (1975); Fawcett (1980); Halliday (1994); Martin (1985, 1992); Morley (1985); Ventura (1991); Downing and Locke (1992); Bloor, T & M. Bloor (1995); 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.Van (1997, 2002) and many others.

The research I have undertaken is an attempt to investigate the structure and meaning of geological textbooks in English and Vietnamese as a subgenre of scientific textbooks.