ULIS - Dissertations : [98]

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  • Authors: Nguyễn, Thị Thắng;  Advisor: Le, Van Canh (2025)

  • The study was carried out during the crisis of pandemic of Covid-19 when almost all educational institutions were forced to move to online learning. SelfDetermination Theory (SDT) is adopted as the theoretical framework in the thesis. The narrative frame was adopted in the research as a research tool to gain a deep understanding of student engagement and factors affecting their engagement as a multidimensional construct. The participants in the study include freshmen of both genders in a Vietnamese university. It is revealed in the study that most students displayed clearly behavior engagement while their cognitive and affective engagement is rather vague. The findings also indicated ...

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  • Authors: Mai, Văn Kết;  Advisor: Nguyễn, Hòa (2025)

  • This study employs Norman Fairclough's (2015) critical discourse analysis to investigate how the "Made in China 2025" (MIC25) initiative constructs images of New China rooted in innovation, self-reliance, and global leadership in technology within the broader context of Industry 4.0. By analysing the strategic language and discursive strategies embedded in the data, this research reveals how linguistic choices such as leadership language, intertextuality, and temporal framing are used to position New China as a technological powerhouse. The study explores how MIC25 uses repetition and lexical framing to emphasize technological self-sufficiency, intertwining national pride with aspirat...

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  • Authors: Nguyễn, Thị Ngọc Trang;  Advisor: Nguyễn, Hoà; Huỳnh, Anh Tuấn (2024)

  • The Vietnam War is one of the most dreadful and controversial events in the human history in the 20th century. This study attempts to investigate the dynamic and critical metaphorical conceptualization of the war from the perspectives of the insiders – American war correspondents– through an evaluation of the conceptual metaphors used in their articles published during the wartime. Methodologically, the current study applies a proposed integrated framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis – CMA (Charteris-Black, 2004) and Multi-level View of conceptual metaphor – MLV (Kövecses, 2017a) in order to gain deeper insights into ideologies motivating metaphorical concepts for the war as ...

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ULIS - Dissertations : [98]

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  • Authors: Nguyễn, Thị Thắng;  Advisor: Le, Van Canh (2025)

  • The study was carried out during the crisis of pandemic of Covid-19 when almost all educational institutions were forced to move to online learning. SelfDetermination Theory (SDT) is adopted as the theoretical framework in the thesis. The narrative frame was adopted in the research as a research tool to gain a deep understanding of student engagement and factors affecting their engagement as a multidimensional construct. The participants in the study include freshmen of both genders in a Vietnamese university. It is revealed in the study that most students displayed clearly behavior engagement while their cognitive and affective engagement is rather vague. The findings also indicated ...

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  • Dissertation


  • Authors: Mai, Văn Kết;  Advisor: Nguyễn, Hòa (2025)

  • This study employs Norman Fairclough's (2015) critical discourse analysis to investigate how the "Made in China 2025" (MIC25) initiative constructs images of New China rooted in innovation, self-reliance, and global leadership in technology within the broader context of Industry 4.0. By analysing the strategic language and discursive strategies embedded in the data, this research reveals how linguistic choices such as leadership language, intertextuality, and temporal framing are used to position New China as a technological powerhouse. The study explores how MIC25 uses repetition and lexical framing to emphasize technological self-sufficiency, intertwining national pride with aspirat...

  • item.jpg
  • Dissertation


  • Authors: Nguyễn, Thị Ngọc Trang;  Advisor: Nguyễn, Hoà; Huỳnh, Anh Tuấn (2024)

  • The Vietnam War is one of the most dreadful and controversial events in the human history in the 20th century. This study attempts to investigate the dynamic and critical metaphorical conceptualization of the war from the perspectives of the insiders – American war correspondents– through an evaluation of the conceptual metaphors used in their articles published during the wartime. Methodologically, the current study applies a proposed integrated framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis – CMA (Charteris-Black, 2004) and Multi-level View of conceptual metaphor – MLV (Kövecses, 2017a) in order to gain deeper insights into ideologies motivating metaphorical concepts for the war as ...

Collection's Items (Sorted by Submit Date in Descending order): 1 to 20 of 98