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CONTENTS Semantics
(meanings)
Lexical-grammar
(words & structures )
EXPRESSION Phonology (sounds /
letters)
Source: Eggins (1993: 27)
Contrastive linguistic features
(S+V+O) (Theme/Rheme)
Stress Tonal
Grammaticalized (lexico- Non - grammaticalized
grammar)
Limited pronouns (7) Various pronouns
Contrastive linguistic features
Krzeszowski (1991:10) indicated that
contrastive linguistics describes similarities
and differences in languages, which leads to
the results that are related to the linguistic
theory in the search for linguistic universals.
Contrastive linguistic features
- vocabulary
- grammatical structures.
3. Methodology
Sample: the sample (N= 1000), 1000 English
news texts and 1000 Vietnamese news texts,
were compared and contrasted.
3. Methodology
Materials: The source of 1000 texts in English
and 1000 texts in Vietnamese covers the
recurrent themes in the press coverage of social
issues, culture to daily news.
The English texts were from the NBC, and the
Vietnamese texts from the Youth newspaper
including articles written in the years 2005, 2006
and 2007, and from VNExpress.
3. Methodology
Procedures: the analysis focuses on the
comparisons and contrasts of sounds,
vocabulary and grammar in the two languages.
4. Results: Analysis and
interpretation of data collected
Phonological contrastive analysis
From the phonological perspective,
contrastive study is carried out in two
aspects:
a) segmental
b) suprasegmental.
4. Results: Analysis and
interpretation of data collected
Segmental
English Vietnamese
L2 L1
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