TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration Abstract. Acknowledgments Table of contents List of abbreviations List of tables and Figures INTRODUCTION 1 1. Rationale 1 2. Aims of the work 1 3. Method of the study 2 4. Scope of the study 2 5. Significance of the study 3 6. Design of the thesis 3 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 4 1.1 Discourse Analysis and News 4 1.1.1 Discourse and text 4 1.1.2 News 5 1.1.2.1 What is news? 5 1.1.2.2 News values 6 1.2 The frameworks for the study of structures of news discourse 7 1.2.1 Teun A. van Dijk’s 7 1.2.2 Allan Bell’s 9 1.2.3 Roger Fowler’s 10 1.3 Some linguistic features of news discourse 11 1.3.1 Clause complex 11 1.3.2 Lexical Density 12 1.4 Summary 12 CHAPTER 2: METHOD AND PROCEDURE 13 2.1 Definition of information communication technology news 13 2.2 The subject of the study 13 2.3 Data collection methods 14 2.4 Data analysis procedures 15 2.4.1 An analysis of the discourse structures of ICT news discourse 15 2.4.1.1 Thematic structures 15 2.4.1.2 News schemata 16 2.5 Some major linguistic features 18 2.5.1 Clause complex 18 2.5.1.1 Type of interdependency 18 2.5.1.2 The logico-semantic relations 19 2.5.2 Lexical Density 20 2.5.2.1 Lexical density levels distinguish writing from speech 20 2.5.2.2 The formula of lexical density 22 2.5.2.3 Lexical density in ICT discourse 22 2.6 Summary 23 CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 24 3.1 A study of discourse structures of ICT news in English and Vietnamese 24 3.1.1 Thematic structure 24 3.1.2 The schematic structure of ICT news discourse 27 3.2 Some major linguistic features of ICT news discourse 32 3.2.1 Clause complex 32 3.2.1.1 Type of interdependency 32 3.2.1.2 The logico-semantic relations 33 3.2.2 Lexical density of ICT news discourse 35 3.2.2.1 Lexical density of ICT news discourse in English 36 3.2.2.2 Lexical density of ICT news discourse in Vietnamese 37 3.3 Summary 39 CONCLUSION 40 1. The findings 40 1.1 The similarities 40 1.2 The differences 40 2. Implications 41 3. Suggestions for further research 41 REFERENCES 42 APPENDIXES
