The aim of this study is to examine the syntactic features of spokesmen’s announcements of . Department of State and Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the discourse level so as to help Vietnamese learners of English understand and grasp the distinctive characteristics of this kind of discourse. | 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG PHAN TH MINH TÂM A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SPOKESMEN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS OF . DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND VIETNAM MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Study Field : THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Code : . THESIS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (A SUMMARY) Da Nang, 2012 2 This study has been completed at the College of Foreign Languages, University of Danang Supervisor : . Ngũ Thi n Hùng Examiner 1 : . Trương Viên Examiner 2 : TS. Nguy n Văn Long n The thesis will be orally presented at the Examining Committee at the University of Danang Time : 16/04/2012 Venue : University of Danang * The thesis is accessible for the purpose of reference at: - Library of the College of Foreign Languages, University of Danang - The University of Danang Information Resources Centre. 3 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION . RATIONALE I have chosen to study the spokesmen’s announcements of . Department of State in a contrastive analysis with those in Vietnamese because of the following reasons: Firstly, English is a predominant means of international communication, especially of transferring information. In Vietnam, many magazines, newspapers and internet sites are published by Vietnamese and then exchanged in English. The website of Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not exception. Writing, translating and interpreting an English announcement into Vietnamese and vice versa becomes very popular nowadays. However, it is difficult to do this because each language has its own discourse features and underlying socio-cultural values. Secondly, the announcements form a special genre of discourse. They are known as spoken discourse but they are usually prepared in advance in written form. In fact, the announcements of foreign ministry are transmitted on media technologies including the internet, television, newspapers and radio to many different countries and regions so it requires the authors to be qualified and their announcements .
