Deontic linguistic means express directive meanings in english and vietnambse

Abstract

     In this paper, the researcher has attempted to cany out a contrastive analysis of DM expressing directives in terms of syntactic and semantic features in English and Vietnamese. The main fmdings of paper show that while categories of DM expressing directives are univeisal across languages, linguistic means available to speakers of different languages may differ, for example, Vietnamese has an intricate system of sentence or utterance particles which have no equivalences in English. Furthermore, English and Vietnamese also differ in the fiequencies of usage of such linguistic means in expressing directive meanings.