ThesisAuthors: Nguyễn, Thị Mến; Advisor: Nguyễn, Văn Độ (2010)
In the present study, an attempt is made to explore the grammar and meaning of
the short story “Witches’ Loaves” by O’Henry as a text which is taken from “O’Henry’s short stories
online”. The procedures and conventions used in the analysis are based on the framework of
Halliday’s (1994) An Introduction to Functional Grammar. The analysis
of the text will proceed from the topic of the chosen text; clauses and clause complex analysis; the
transitivity pattern, the mood pattern, the theme-rheme pattern, the grammatical and lexical
cohesion; to a summary of the context of situation of the text in terms of the three contextual
parameters: field,... 
