A study of english and vietnamese idioms of anger

... translating English idioms of anger. 3.Scope of the study a. Idioms b. English idioms of anger c. Semantic features and characteristics of English idioms of anger d. Some suggestions for teaching ... as anger . According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Lakoff (1989), the visual image “fire” is always used to represent anger - an abstract concept so that...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... terms of syntactic, semantic and cultural features. 3.5. RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY The data were selected from English, American and Vietnamese newspapers. Most of linguistic and grammatical ... SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY A study on syntactic and semantic features of English and Vietnamese idioms containing spiritual words will be a contribution to t...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:18

... PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. RATIONALE All languages in the world have vocabulary and idioms; therefore the more vocabulary is, the more idioms are. Idiom is a popular and useful way of language ... phrases or verb phrases, etc. many aspects of idioms are offered and studied. With my interest in idioms, I take “Semantic features of English and 1 It is apparent that bo...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 12:54

... number of Vietnamese and English idioms can be found in many books, dictionaries of other authors and there have been quite a lot of MA and BA theses on various aspects of English and Vietnamese ... RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1. What are the syntactic characteristics of English and Vietnamese IPOA? 2. What are the semantic characteristics of English and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... provides learners of English some general information on language, and culture and an overview of idioms and proverbs. In chapter 2 and chapter 3, we have " ;Idioms and proverbs relating to ... through an egg, larva, pupa to adult stage. Female mosquitoes are usually larger than males. Females have fine threadlike antennae with few hairs, whereas males have bushy...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 10:15

... qualitative and quantitative approaches are used to make the data analysis more reliable. Calculations, statistics and tables are carried out to clarify the data and support the descriptive and ... syntactic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese? 2. What are pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese? 3. What are similarities and differences in the syn...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:19

... sense that in some situation P and R are, for instance, constant and have small values and only the expression of D varies. Similarly, in other situations P may vary while D and R are constant or ... there are certain kinds of acts that “intrinsically threaten face” (called face-threatening acts or FTAs) because they by nature “run contrary to the face want of the addressee and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:36

... MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG NGUYỄN QUỐC TOÀN A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF CONNOTATION OF THE VIETNAMESE ZODIAC ANIMALS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS AND ... cultural connotations between the English and Vietnamese VZA words, and compares the VZA images and their connotations. A contrastive analysis has been done...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:29

... percentage of insertion sequences as well as comparing their frequency in English and Vietnamese. Thanks to both qualitative and quantiative approaches, the researcher can describe and analyze, ... the study is limited to the syntactic and pragmatic features of insertion sequence in English and Vietnamese. The data for the analysis was mainly collected from English...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16