an investigation of the polysemy of open close' in english and mở đóng in vietnamese (from the cognitive perspective) = nghiên cứu tính đa nghĩa của động từ mở đóng trong tiếng anh và tiếng việt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART A: INTRODUCTION

1. RATIONALE OF THE STUDY

2. SCOPE OF THE STUDY

3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS

5. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY

PART B: DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. AN OVERVIEW ON CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

2.2. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF VERBS

2.2.1. Verbs in English

2.2.2. Verbs in Vietnamese

3.3. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

3.3.1. Definition of terms

3.3.2. Major principles of cognitive linguistics

3.4. COGNITIVE SEMANTICS

3.4.1. Definition

3.4.2. Guiding principles of cognitive semantics

3.5. POLYSEMY

3.5.1. The traditional treatment of polysemy

3.5.2. Polysemy in cognitive linguistics

3.5.3. Summary

CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY

2.1. RESEARCH QUESTIONS

2.2. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHOD

2.3. METHOD AND SOURCES OF THE LANGUAGE MATERIAL

2.3.1. Sources of the language material

2.3.2. Method of data collection

2.4. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK

CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS

3.1. THE POLYSEMY OF OPEN/CLOSE IN ENGLISH

3.1.1. Prototypical and non-prototypical meanings of ‘open/close’

3.1.2. Encyclopaedic knowledge and meanings of ‘open/close’

3.1.3. Radial category of ‘open/close’

3.2. THE ENGLISH VERBS ‘OPEN/CLOSE’ AND THEIR VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS

3.2.1. ‘Open/close’ in English corresponds to ‘mở/đóng’ in Vietnamese

3.2.2. Some other Vietnamese equivalents of the English verbs ‘open/close’

3.3. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERNENCES BETWEEN ‘OPEN/CLOSE’ IN ENGLISH AND ‘ĐÓNG/MỞ’ IN VIETNAMESE

3.3.1. Similarities

3.3.2. Differences

3.4. SUMMARY

PART C: CONCLUSION

1. CONCLUSIONS

2. IMPLICATIONS

3. LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY

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