TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1. RATIONALE
1.2. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
1.3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.5. RESEARCH SCOPE
1.6. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
2.1. REVIEW OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
2.2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
2.2.1. Linguistic Communication
2.2.2. Cooperation and Conversational Implicature
2.2.3. Speech Act Theory
2.2.4. Tautologies
CHAPTER 3 METHOD AND PROCEDURE
3.1. RESEARCH DESIGN AND RESEARCH METHOD
3.2. RESEARCH PROCEDURES
3.3. DESCRIPTION OF THE SAMPLE
3.4. INSTRUMENTS FOR DATA COLLECTION
3.5. DATA COLLECTION
3.6. SUMMARY
CHAPTER 4 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
4.1. THE SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF TAUTOLOGIES IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
4.1.1. The syntactic Features of Tautologies in English
4.1.2. The Syntactic Features of Tautologies in Vietnamese
4.1.3. The Similarities and Differences in Syntactic Features of Tautologies in English and Vietnamese
4.2. THE PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF TAUTOLOGIES IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
4.2.1. The Pragmatic Features of Tautologies in English
4.2.2. The Pragmatic Features of Tautologies in Vietnamese
4.2.3. The Similarities and Differences in the Pragmatic Features of Tautologies in English and Vietnamese
4.2.4. Summary
CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1. CONCLUSIONS
5.1.1. Summary of the Development of the Study
5.1.2. Summary of the Findings
5.2. IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
5.3. LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
5.4. RECOMMENDATIONS