1.         Fullname: Le Thi Bich Thuy                                2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 14.08.1978                                             4. Place of birth: Nam Dinh

5. Admission decision number: 4618/2016/QĐ-XHNV, December 29, 2016 of The Rector of The University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process:

7. Official thesis title: Research on methods for translating implicatures in questions from German to Vietnamese (based on literary translations)

8. Major: comparative-contrastive linguistics                   9. Code: 62 22 02 41

10. Supervisors: Assoc. Dr. Lam Quang Dong/ Dr. Le Tuyet Nga

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- There are four groups of words and constructions that contribute to conventional implicatures in questions in German, namely: discourse deitic expressions, expressive modifiers, social deitic expressions and syntactic constructions. Conversational implicatures found in questions include interlocutors’ observation or violation of the cooperative principle and conversational maxims, especially the Quality maxim.

- Three groups of meanings generated by such mechanisms are the speaker’s expectations or suggestions to the listener, the speaker’s attitudes to the listener or to a third person, the speaker’s attitudes to what is said.

- The methods used to transfer implicatures in questions from German to Vietnamese include the utilization of particles/ adverbs/ conjunctions/ interjections; semantic transformations; grammatical transformations; questions without question words (e.g. WH-words)/ adverbs/ particles; and literal translation.

- Applying two among various criteria for translation evaluation, namely implicatures and linguistic standards, to the access of the two Vietnamese versions of the play investigated in the study, all the researcher, translation experts and informants offer positive feedback to the two Vietnamese versions.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

The results of this thesis can be used as useful materials for translation in general and literature translation in particular. Showing concrete signals of implicatures, especially conventional implicatures will help translators understand implicit meaning of discourse and social deixis expressions, ect., so that they can apply suitable methods to translate implicatures to Vietnamese. The translation access used in this research implies an empirical evaluation with the participation of readers in both sourse and target languages. In addition, the research results are also useful for teaching translation for the language pair German – Vietnamese, for example for teaching “literature translation”, “translation access”, ect.

13. Further research direction, if any:

- Implicatures and methods of translating implicatures in other types of sentences (not only questions) from German to Vietnamese

- Related to translation access: not only “implicature” and “linguistic norm”, but also other aspects can be considered to obtain comprehensive and persuasive criticism; more translation experts should be invited to take part in the translation access in order to get multidimensional views from test persons; researcher should interview the translators to know the reasons for choosing the solution to the problems related to implicatures ect.

14. Thesis-related publications:

1.         Le Thi Bich Thuy (2018a), “Gerzymisch-Arbogast`s Model of Translation criticism for Access of Implicature by means of two translation versions “Ba lon ve tham” and “Ba ty phu ve tham que””, Journal of Linguistics (12), pp. 58-74.

2.         Le Thi Bich Thuy (2018b), “Methods for Translating implicatures in questions from German into Vietnamese”, VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, Vol. 34 (6), pp. 111-125.

3.         Le Thi Bich Thuy (2018c), “Conventional Implicatures in German question – expressions and equivalent expressions in Vietnamese (based on the drama “Der Besuch der alten Dame” and its translations - an exemplary research)” VNU Journal of Social Sience and Humanitis, Vol 4 (1b), pp. 107-125.

4.         Le Thi Bich Thuy (2018d), “Translation Criticism of German researchers - An Introduction”, International Conference Proceedings Linguistics in Vietnam -  the stages of development and international integration, Publishing Information and Communication, Da Nang, pp. 981-990.

5.         Le Thi Bich Thuy (2019), “Research methods in Interdisciplinary Linguistics (a concrete these as an example)”, National Science Conference Proceedings 2019 - Researching and Teaching Foreign Languages, Linguistics, International Studies in Vietnam, Publishing Vietnam National University Hanoi, pp. 500-510.

6.         Le Thi Bich Thuy (2019), “Conversational Implicatures in German questions (using the example of the drama „The Visit“)”, Proceedings of the 5th International Science Conference - Teaching German in (South)East Asia

Sustainable development and quality accreditation, Publishing Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh, pp. 106-115.