A systemic functional study on mood in English and Vietnamese journal articles on finance

Abstract

Using mood types in scientific discourses is of great interest to writers. Therefore, it is important to study mood use in journal articles on finance.. This  research aims at finding out linguistic features used to convey communicative functions between writers and readers. A total of  English 50 articles randomly selected from 10 Scopus-indexed journals on finance and 50 Vietnamese articles randomly chosen from journals on finance with ISSN index are analyzed. Their general linguistic features are compared and contrasted. The findings can offer some practical recommendations to Vietnamese authors to  improve the language quality of their papers..