ĐỐI CHIẾU CHIẾN LƯỢC CHÚC MỪNG TRONG TIẾNG VIỆT VÀ TIẾNG ANH
Vol. 134 No. 6C (2025), Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Huế: Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn
Vol. 134 No. 6C (2025)

ĐỐI CHIẾU CHIẾN LƯỢC CHÚC MỪNG TRONG TIẾNG VIỆT VÀ TIẾNG ANH

Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Huế: Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn
https://doi.org/10.26459/hueunijssh.v134i6C.7635
Published 2025-08-06
Thanh Hiền Lê Đỗ
Đại học Cần Thơ
Viên Trương

Keywords

speech act of congratulations, congratulation strategies, contrastive study, movie subtitle analysis hành vi chúc mừng, chiến lược chúc mừng, đối chiếu, phân tích phụ đề phim

Abstract

Congratulation is one of the fundamental purposes of language communication that exists within any society or ethnicity. The speech act of congratulating also contributes to shaping the etiquette and culture of individuals as well as the broader culture of a nation. This research focuses on examining congratulation strategies in Vietnamese and American English to identify the similarities and differences in the usage of these strategies within the communication of the two languages. Qualitative, descriptive statistical and contrastive methods have been employed, drawing on data from subtitles of Vietnamese and American movies and television series, to tally the incidence and frequency of congratulation strategies in both languages; thereby uncivering new findings that contribute to the theoretical discourse in the field of linguistic behavior research.

https://doi.org/10.26459/hueunijssh.v134i6C.7635

References

  1. Alameen, M. I. (2017), Investigating Similarities and Differences between Sudanese Arabic and British English Speech Acts of Congratulations, Doctoral dissertation, Sudan University of Science and Technology.
  2. Al-Hour, I. I. (2019), The Speech Act of Congratulation in Palestinian Society: Positive Politeness and Gender Differences, Master’s Thesis, Hebron University.
  3. Allami, H., & Nekouzadeh, M. (2011), Congratulation and Positive Politeness Strategies in Iranian Context, Theory & Practice in Language Studies, 1(11), 1607–1613.
  4. Avazpour, K. (2020), Cross-cultural Analysis of Congratulations in American English, Indian English and Peninsular Spanish, Unpublished Master thesis, Dalarna University, Sweden, https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1505524/FULLTEXT01.pdf
  5. Azam, S., & Saleem, T. (2018), Congratulations across Cultures: Punjabi and British Speakers, Erevna Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2(1), 47–64.
  6. Bach, K., & Harnish, R. M. (1979), Linguistic communication and speech acts, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  7. Bataineh, R. F. (2013), On congratulating, thanking, and apologizing in Jordanian Arabic and American English, Journal of Intercultural Communication, 32, 1404–1634.
  8. Bhattacherjee, A. (2012), Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices, University of South Florida.
  9. Dastjerdi, H. V., & Nasri, N. (2012), Congratulation speech acts across cultures: The case of English, Persian, and Arabic, Journal of Language, Culture, and Translation, 1(2), 97–116.
  10. El-Adawy, H. G. S. (2018), Congratulation and Thank-you Announcements in Some Newspapers: A Semiotic Approach, Doctoral dissertation, Suez Canal University.
  11. Elwood, K. (2004), “ Congratulations!”: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Responses to Another’s Happy News, 文化論集, 25, 355–386.
  12. Flores-Salgado, E. (2011), The Pragmatics of Request and Apologies: Developmental Patterns of Mexican Students, John Benjamins, Philadelphia.
  13. Gómez, L. U. (2016), Congratulations in Latin comedy: Types and functions, Journal of Politeness Research, 12(2), 267–290.
  14. Heine, S. J., Lehman, D. R., Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1999), Is there a universal need for positive self-regard? Psychological Review, 106(4), 766–794.
  15. Holmes, J. (1997), Women, language and identity, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1(2), 195-223, doi: 10.1111/1467-9481.00012
  16. Nguyễn Văn Huyên (2004), Văn hóa Việt Nam - Nghiên cứu và suy ngẫm, Nxb. Khoa học Xã hội.
  17. Keshishian, L. H. (2018), Speech act of congratulation in Lebanese Arabic and English among university students in Lebanon, Master’s Thesis, American University of Beirut.
  18. Mahzari, M. (2017), A Sociopragmatic Study of the Congratulation Strategies of Saudi Facebook Users, Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University.
  19. Pishghadam, R., & Moghaddam, M. M. (2011), Towards a contrastive pragmatic analysis of congratulation speech act in Persian and English, The Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(2), 130–151.
  20. Nguyễn Quang (2014), Các loại chuyển giao trong giao tiếp giao văn hóa, Tạp chí Nghiên cứu Nước ngoài, 30 (3), 14-22.
  21. Searle, J. R. (1969), Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  22. Stadler, J. (2013), Cinema’s Compassionate Gaze: Embodiment, Affect, and Aesthetics. In The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Cine-Ethics, edited by Jinhee Choi and Mattias Frey (pp. 27-42), Routledg, London.
  23. Phạm Văn Tình (2010), Văn hóa giao tiếp của người Việt Nam, Tạp chí Khoa học Xã hội, số 7, tr. 45-52.