HA NOI OPEN UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT ON DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Lecturer Student : Dr. H Ngc Trung : Th Minh

Date of birth : 13 09 - 1990 Group : KT3B

Ha Noi, 2011

Trch on truyn ngn Dont worry, be happy trong tuyn tp truyn Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul ca tc gi Jack Canfield. Bn Ting Anh Dont worry, be happy
How old are you? a stranger asked my daughter, Melissa, at a party six years ago.[1]Two, she answered.[2]And are you married? the woman teased.[3] No! Melissa answered, smiling.[4] Then she dropped her smile, and in a serious tone added, But my mommy was, and my daddy was.[5] I eavesdropped from a safe distance, wondering what might follow. [6] Would Melissa, with her advanced vocabulary, tell this stranger that her parents were divorced?[7] Even worse, would my toddler act out and hit the woman, or start crying?[8] To my surprise, with glee, Melissa added, My mommy was married to my daddy.[9] She then toddled off. [10] Twenty months earlier, when Melissa was six months old, my husband discarded me like a well-worn pair of shoes and replaced me with his high school crush.[11] No explanation.[12] Just a silent, seeping with drawal that culminated in an abrupt exit from what had seemed on the surface a happy marriage.[13] Id wake at dawn to Melissas cries, Id find myself curled up in a corner of the huge mattress, clutching what for six years had been someone elses pillow.[14] Id drag myself out of bed, throw on some sweatpants then feed and dress my baby.[15] Just before driving Melissa to day care and burying my grief in my work for eight hours, Id dab on some make-up in a feeble attempt to cover

the bags under my eyes.[16] Somehow, I had to find a switch that got me through the day.[17] But by nighttime, after Id tucked her into the crib in a bedroom filled with rainbows and sunshine, Id crawl next door to my lifeless room and cling to the phone, calling everyone I knew just to keep from feeling so alone.[18] One long day evolved into two, then two into three, and slowly, through the haze, I recognized that even though my marriage had died, I was still alive.[19] Eventually, I propelled myself out the door and joined a divorce support group, a new-mothers network, a local social club and, eventually, dating services.[20] Meanwhile, Melissa grew from a crawler to a walker to a toddler to a talker.[21] Despite knowing life with her parents as a series of good-byes and hellos, she was emerging as a precocious, happy, well-adjusted little girl.[22] These traits may have been planted in her genes, or they may have derived from the one-on-one attention she received from each parent.[23] From early on, my daughter had an extensive vocabulary and uncanny perception.[24] When she was twenty-two months old, she saw me and her father arguing and babbled, with finger pointing: Dont be so angry so much, be happy.[25] At two, she heard me complain about something and told me not to worry.[26] Yet I did.[27] I worried about competing for her affections with the woman in her fathers life.[28] I worried about whether I could ever provide us with a loving man and stepfather so she could learn about love and commitment differently than her father and I had taught her.[29] I worried shed forever be an only child, or, worse, that one day shed have step- or, horrors, half-siblings who would be the children of the woman my husband had turned to when he left me.[30]

I. Analyze cohesion in the story. 1.Conjunction: a. Simple additive relations:

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In sentence [3]: she answered.And are you married? In sentence [5]: my mommy was, and my daddy was In sentence [8]: act out and hit In sentence [11]: pair of shoes and replaced me In sentence [15]: feed and dress In sentence [16]: care and burying In sentence [18]: rainbows and sunshine; room and cling In sentence [19]: then two into three, and slowly In sentence [20]: the door and joined; a local social club and, eventually In sentence [22]: series of good-byes and hellos In sentence [24]: vocabulary and uncanny In sentence [25]: me and her father arguing and babbled In sentence [26]: complain about something and told me In sentence [29]: a loving man and stepfather; love and commitment; her father and I

b. Contrastive relations:
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In sentence [5]: But my mommy was In sentence [18]: But by nighttime In sentence [19]: even though my marriage; I was still alive In sentence [27]: Yet I did In sentence [30]: forever be an only child In sentence [18]: feeling so alone

c. Adversative relation:
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d. Causal relation:
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In sentence [29]: stepfather so she

2.Reference.
a. Personal reference:
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In sentence [1]-[2]: a stranger refers she In sentence [5]: she refers her In sentence [22]: she refers little girl In sentence [24]-[25]: my daughter refers she In sentence [30]: my husband refers he In sentence [7]: tell this stranger that her parents In sentence [13]: drawal that culmi In sentence [17]: a switch that got me In sentence [19]: recognized that even In sentence [23]: These traits In sentence [30]: that one day In sentence [18]: feeling so alone In sentence [29]: commitment differently than her father In sentence [29]: stepfather so she

b. Demonstrative reference:
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c. Comparative reference:
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3. Subsitution.
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In sentence [18]: One long day In sentence [23]: the one-on-one attention In sentence [30]: that one day

4. Ellipsis:
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In sentence [2]: two there author leaved out a word I(nominal ellipsis) In sentence [3]: No! ( = I) In sentence [11]: pair of shoes and replaced me ( = my husband) In sentence [15]: feed and dress my baby ( = I) In sentence [16]: care and burying ( = I) In sentence [20]: the door and joined a divorce support group ( = I) In sentence [26]: complain about something and told me ( = she)

5. Lexical cohesive devices.

In this story author used some Lexical cohesive devices. Repetition:
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In sentence [14]: Id wake at dawn to Melissas cries, Id find myself curled up in a corner of the huge mattress, clutching what for six years had been someone elses pillow. In sentence [18]: But by nighttime, after Id tucked her into the crib in a bedroom filled with rainbows and sunshine, Id crawl next door to my lifeless room and cling to the phone, calling everyone I knew just to keep from feeling so alone. In sentence [29]: I worried about whether I could ever provide us with a loving man and stepfather so she could learn about love and commitment differently than her father and I had taught her

Bn Dch Sang Ting Vit ng lo lng, hy vui ln

Ti mt bui tic cch y su nm, mt ngi l mt hi con gi nh Melissa ca ti: Chu my tui ri?.Hai tui , con b tr li. Ngi ph n hi con b: Chu lp gia nh cha?. Melissa ci v p tr: Cha . Ri n nghim mt, cng thm ging ni y v nghim tc: Nhng m chu c gia nh ri, b chu cng vy. Ti ng cch mt khong cch tng i an ton v ln theo di cuc chuyn tr ca con gi mnh vi ngi ph n l mt kia, t hi khng bit iu g s xy ra. Vi vn t kh tt ca mnh, liu Melissa c k cho ngi ph n kia rng cha m mnh ly hn? Hoc t hn, n c by t thi bng cch nh ngi ph n y hay bt u khc tong ln? Nhng ti rt ngc nhin v vui sng khi nghe con b ni rng: M ca chu tng ci b ca chu y. Ni ri n lng chng i u mt. Hai mi thng trc, khi Melissa ch va mi c su thng tui, chng ti b ri ti nh b mt i giy c v th vo ch ti l c bn hc chung hi ph thng. Khng mt li gii thch. Ch c s quay lng v tnh, lng l ri i n mt kt cc bt ng cho cuc hn nhn b ngoi trng c v nh rt hnh phc. Mi sng thc gic v ting khc ca Melissa, ti cht nhn ra mnh ang co ro trong gc ca mt chic gng nm rng ln, m p ni tng l chic gi ca mt ngi trong sut su nm qua. L mnh khi ging, ti mc vi qun o ri i lo ba sng v thay cho a con gi. a Melissa n nh tr ri tr v chn giu ni au ring trong cng vic tm gi mi ngy, ti c trang im nh c gng che i nhng qung thm di mt. Ti c gng tm thy mt s thay i, ci c th gip ti tip tc cuc sng ny.

C mi m v, sau khi t con gi vo ni trong phng ng c ly y bng nhng bc tranh cu vng v nh mt tri, ti l bc v cn phng chng cn s sng ca mnh, gi cho tt c nhng ngi quen bit trn trnh cm gic c n. Mt ngy di tri qua, ri hai ngy, ba ngy v ti l m nhn ra d cuc hn nhn ca mnh tan v, nhng ti vn cn cuc sng pha trc. Cui cng, ti t y mnh ra khi nh v tham gia vo mt nhm tng tr nhng ngi ly hn, gia nhp vo hi nhng ngi m tr, v ng k dch v t vn v h tr hn h. Trong lc , Melissa dn ln ri bit b ri chp chng i, sau l bit ni. Mc d ch bit n cuc sng cng b m vi nhng chui di nhng mu i thoi xin cho v tm bit, nhng n vn ni ln l mt a tr ln trc tui, vn vui v v d thch nghi vi mi vic. Nhng nt dng nh c sn trong con b, m cng c th c ngun gc t cha m mnh mi ngi mt t. T rt sm, con b c mt vn t vng phong ph v kh nng nhn thc l k. Khi va hai mi hai thng tui, con b nhn thy ti v b n ang tranh ci, vi mt ngn tay ch vo chng ti, Melissa ngng nghu bo: ng gin d th, chng ta phi vui v ln!. Khi mi hai tui, lc nghe ti than phin mt s chuyn, con b bo: M ng lo. Ti c gng nh vy. Ti lo lng v vic con gi b bng ca mnh s chia s tnh yu thng vi ngi ph n mi ca b n. Ti lo rng liu d t c th gp c mt ngi n ng khc, mt ngi b dng ng mn con b bit th no l tnh yu v s tn ty, khc vi nhng g m b rut n v ti dy. Ti cn lo lng rng Melissa s mi mi ch l con mt, hoc t hn, mt ngy no con b s c anh ch l con ring ca chng sp ci ca ti, khng khip hn con b s c nhng a em l con ca chng c ti vi ngi ph n mi sau ny.