Learning English through Film Titles
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Learning English , Film, Titlesบทคัดย่อ
This research is a document analysis of film titles in English. It intends to study English complex word structure, phrase structure, and their grammatical functions in collecting data from English film titles. The film titles are retrieved from the movies released from 2015 to 2017 in Thailand. The data includes 376 English movie titles. The morphological structures are analyzed within the theories of word formation. The structure of English film titles are analyzed both at morphological (word) and at syntactic levels (phrase and sentence). Three morphological formations (compounding, affixation, and abbreviation) and four phrase structures (noun, verb, adjectival and prepositional phrase) are recognized at the word and phrasal structure levels respectively. At the sentence structure level, a negative-imperative sentence and a statement sentence are found.
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