Application of appraisal theory in analyzing contraction resources of English and Vietnamese editorials

Tóm tắt

The paper studies the use of Contraction resources in the English and Vietnamese editorials based on Appraisal Theory. Firstly, the paper presents Appraisal Theory, especially Contraction. Then, it is about the data and methods. The findings denote that both English and Vietnamese editors make use of a variety of strategies in Contraction. However, in the English editorials, there is a much lower frequency of Contraction which makes the English texts sound less affirmative and authoritative but more dialogically expansive than the Vietnamese ones