TAILIEUCHUNG - Astudy of causal connectives in English and in Vietnamese in the light of figure/ground relationships

The so-called backward causality and forward causality will be discussed in the light of Figure/ Ground relationships to &nd out the similarities and diferences between them. Then we propose some solutions for Vietnamese learners of English to make the appropriate use of causal connectives in English and in Vietnamese. | A STUDY OF CAUSAL CONNECTIVES IN ENGLISH AND IN VIETNAMESE IN THE LIGHT OF FIGURE GROUND RELATIONSHIPS Nguyen Tu Nhi1 Abstract Causation can be expressed by various linguistic means. It is of great importance to understand the nature of causation expressed by these different means in the light of cognitive semantics. In addition the choice of one causative construction over another may differ in English and in Vietnamese. This difference may bring about the negative impact on language transfer and learners tend to fail to convey the causative relation between participants in a causative eventIn this paper causative constructions with causal connectives shall be discussed and analyzed. The quot so-called quot backward causality and forward causality will be discussed in the light of Figure Ground relationships to nd out the similarities and diferences between them. Then we propose some solutions for Vietnamese learners of English to make the appropriate use of causal connectives in English and in Vietnamese. Key words Cognitive semantics Figure Ground relationships causal connectives 1. Introduction Causation has been a topic of linguistic investigation for many years. According to Herchenson 1981 there are two main reasons underlying this main interest of linguists in the phenomenon i causative constructions build a good proving ground for many questions of theoretical interest and ii causation can be expressed in natural language in numerous linguistic alternatives. Altenberg 1984 has in fact identi ed nearly one hundred possible explicit links for encoding a causal relation between two propositions. Focusing on different kinds of causal expressions could lead to different conclusions about the nature of causation. Any language user is thus confronted with the problem of choosing one alternative over another. But how is this choice constrained Why does a language user choose one link over another This same question arises in natural language generation where it .

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• Cognitive semantics
• Figure/Ground relationships
• Causal connectives
• Backward causality
• Forward causality
• A COMPUTATIONAL VIEW
• THE COGNITIVE SEMANTICS
• SPATIAL PREPOSITIONS
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