A study on english idioms and proverbs relating to fruits

... invitation and rejecting invitation in English and Vietnamese in particular. Chapter II gives the ways of rejecting invitation in English and Vietnamese and the differences and similarities ... say no to do an invitation. Refusals are potentially face – threatening and essentially impolite acts (Brown and Levinson, 1993). As failure to refuse appropriately can risk...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... relating to human feelings and emotions are raried ,in this paper, only some typical idioms and proverbs on human feelings and emotions are presented and analyzed. Particularly , I pay attention ... general, for the ESL students and learners,it is necessary to study on idioms and proverbs because idioms and proverbs cause many matters around them. To...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 01:26

... willing to accept and understand them, they might not understand what that person means and that leads to a misunderstanding and boring conversation. Therefore, my study is aimed at:  Clarifying ... in a clean and fresh way, people who always know to improve their appearance by fashionable and smart clothes, fresh style and smiling. They are a clean-lambed per...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... Idioms and proverbs relating to bees 15 2. Idioms and proverbs relating to fleas 17 3. Idioms and proverbs relating to butterflies 19 4. Idioms and proverbs relating to ants 22 5. Idioms and proverbs ... 1.3. Language and Culture Language and culture have the unseparated connection. Language is means of transporting of culture and als...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 10:15

... - An Investigation into Pragmatic and cultural aspects of English and Vietnamese idioms relating to spiritual life. - English and Vietnamese Proverbs relating to spiritual life. 3 CHAPTER ... compare passages, and base on the context to translate them into their own language suitably and correctly by paying much attention to cultural features. 26 La...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:18

... way. to keep one‟s head above water”: to manage to survive a difficult experience. “all at sea”: in a state of confusion and disorder. a drop in the ocean”: a quantity too small to make any ... on the coast, so they get a close relationship with sea and have many idioms and proverbs related to sea and water. 24 E.g. “spend money like water”: to...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 09:17

... fire) 3.2. Idiomatic variants in English and Vietnamese Idiomatic variants are available in both English and Vietnamese. However, the forms and contents of idiomatic variants in each language are different. 3.2.1. ... Vietnamese are described and analyzed in the relationship with cultures. Then, techniques such as comparison, transformation, and contrastive analysis are appli...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... fact, idioms and proverbs are the most difficult of each language to understand and translate into other one. And it does not exclude English. It is not always easy to identify idioms and proverbs. ... an insight into the similarities and differences in the use of language and images in English and Vietnamese idioms and proverbs. II. Some popular Englis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:48

... serve as a basis of the data analysis. Particular is paid to analyzing and categorizing the data syntactically, semantically and pragmatically. 3.6 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY Reliability and validity ... syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of exaggeration in English and Vietnamese? - What are the similarities and differences of exaggeration used in English a...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16