An investigation into cognitive expressions containing heaven in english and vietnamese son

THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES NGUYỄN ĂYUN THÙY MY AN INVESTIGATION INTO COGNITIVE EXPRESSIONS CONTAINING “HEAVEN” IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE SONGS Major: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Code: 822 02 01 MASTER THESIS IN LINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES Da Nang, 2020 THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES NGUYỄN ĂYUN THÙY MY AN INVESTIGATION INTO COGNITIVE EXPRESSIONS CONTAINING “HEAVEN” IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE SONGS Major: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Code: 822 02 01 MASTER THESIS IN LINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES SUPERVIOR: NGUYỄN THỊ HUỲNH LỘC, Ph.D Da Nang, 2020 i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I certify that the present thesis “An investigation into cognitive expressions containing “heaven” in English and Vietnamese songs” is my own work This thesis has not been submitted for the award of any degree of diploma in any other institutions Da Nang, April, 2020 NGUYỄN ĂYUN THÙY MY ii ABSTRACT My study examines the cognitive expression containing the word “heaven” in English and Vietnamese songs In addition, the research analysis throughout the whole songs which plays an important role in understanding the meaning of songs that the author want to say to The concept of “heaven” is also considered as one of the abstract entity having close relations with cognition Therefore, this paper attempts to conduct a contrastive analysis research of cognitive expressions of “heaven” in English and Vietnamese This paper chooses the quantitative and qualitative approaches throughout the study to achieve the purpose The source of data will be taken from 266 songs composed by English and Vietnamese composers.The data can be restricted to the scope of analyzing the cognitive expressions containing “heaven” songs, not in other forms of art such as poetry, literature or films And there are approximately 298 cognitive expressions of “heaven” collected from American and Vietnamese songs The findings presented eighteen target domains which occur in cognitive expressions of “heaven” in American, Vietnamese, or both To achieve the research aims and objectives the study tries to answer two questions that are how the cognitive expressions containing “heaven” relate to the image of “heaven” in English and Vietnamese songs? and what are the similarities and differences of cognitive expressions containing “heaven” in English and Vietnamese songs? However, fifteen cognitive expressions containing the word “heaven” occurs in English while there remains some cognitive expressions of “heaven” that occur in Vietnamese but not in English Based on the findings of the thesis, some implications for teaching, learning and translating of conceptual metaphors will be suggested Furthermore, this thesis is useful for Vietnamese learners of English to be successful in cross - cultural communication iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Statement of authorship i Abstract ii List of abbreviation v List of tables vii List of figures viii Chapter One INTRODUCTION .1 1.1 RATIONALE 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aims 1.2.2 Objectives 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.5 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETIAL BACKGROUND .5 2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.2.1 The definition of heaven and paradise 2.2.2 Metaphor 11 2.2.3 Classification of cognitive metaphors .13 2.2.4 Metaphor mappings 16 2.2.5 Summary 22 Chapter Three RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY .23 3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN .23 3.2 RESEARCH METHODS 23 3.3 DATA COLLECTION .23 3.3.1 Research sampling 24 3.3.3 Research Procedure 25 iv 3.4 DATA ANALYSIS 25 3.5 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY 25 Chapter Four FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 26 4.1 COGNITIVE EXPRESSIONS CONTAINING “HEAVEN” IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE SONGS 26 4.1.1 FIRE IS HEAVEN 26 4.1.2 LOVE IS HEAVEN 27 4.1.3 GLORY IS HEAVEN .30 4.1.4 SKY IS HEAVEN 34 4.1.5 GOD IS HEAVEN 36 4.1.6 DREAM IS HEAVEN 38 4.1.7 FREEDOM IS HEAVEN 40 4.1.8 PEACE IS HEAVEN 42 4.1.9 DEATH IS HEAVEN .43 4.1.10 WINDOW IS HEAVEN .45 4.1.11 ROAD IS HEAVEN 45 4.1.12 MEMORY IS HEAVEN .46 4.1.13 LOVER IS HEAVEN 47 4.1.14 PLANT IS HEAVEN 48 4.1.15 HOMELAND IS HEAVEN 49 4.1.16 LIFE IS HEAVEN 49 4.1.17 HELL IS HEAVEN .50 4.1.18 AN IDEAL PLACE IS HEAVEN 51 4.2 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE EXPRESSIONS CONTAINING “HEAVEN” IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE SONGS 52 4.4 SUMMARY 57 Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 59 5.1 CONCLUSIONS 59 5.2 IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 60 v 5.2.1 For Language Teachers and language Learners 60 5.2.2 For translators and interpreters 62 5.2.3 For music fans 62 5.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 62 5.4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 63 REFERENCES 64 QUYẾT ĐỊNH GIAO ĐỀ TÀI LUẬN VĂN (Bản Sao) APPENDICES vi LIST OF ABBREVIATION Cognitive Linguistics : CL Cognitive Metaphor : CM(s) CE : Cognitive expression(s) Source domain : SD Target domain : TD (+) : Available (-) : Not available vii LIST OF TABLES Number Name of Table Page 1.1 Summary of Definition of Heaven 3.1 Names and websites of Electronic Newspapers 23 4.1 CMs expressing FIRE IS HEAVEN 27 4.2 CMs expressing LOVE IS HEAVEN 29 4.3 CMs expressing GLORY IS HEAVEN 33 4.4 CMs expressing THE SKY IS HEAVEN 36 4.5 CMs expressing GOD‟S HOME IS HEAVEN 38 4.6 CMs expressing DREAM IS HEAVEN 40 4.7 CMs expressing FREEDOM IS HEAVEN 42 4.8 CMs expressing PEACE IS HEAVEN 43 4.9 CMs expressing DEATH IS HEAVEN 45 4.10 CMs expressing WINDOW IS HEAVEN 45 4.11 CMs expressing ROAD IS HEAVEN 46 4.12 CMs expressing PLANT IS HEAVEN 49 4.13 Summary of cognitive of Heaven in English 53 The number of song and word in English and Vietnamese 55 and Vietnamese songs 4.14 songs 4.15 Summary of cognitive Metaphors of Heaven in Vietnamese and English songs 59 viii LIST OF FIGURES Number Name of Figure Page 2.1 Metaphorical mapping 19 4.1 The frequency of "thiên Đƣờng" and "thiên Đàng" in 56 Vietnamese songs 4.2 The frequency of "heaven" and "paradise" in English 56 songs 4.3 The number of kinds of music in English and Vietnamese songs 57 122 Cognitive expression Kind Of Music No Songs Lyrics Composer 252 Paradise From Nine To One Bowles an Bunch Leo An Ideal Place For A Particular Activity With Reckless Hearts Pop 253 Little Paradise Neil Geraldo Glory Pop 254 Pastime Paradise Screeching to a halt in front of your house The front door opened and your momma peeked out I saw your silhouette brushing your long hair Any minute now you'd be slipping downstairs We were rarin' to go and the night was young It was paradise from nine to one Can you see the view? Can you feel the heat? I'm savin' no time for you, no time for me You're up on the news, I'm wild in the streets I'm under the lights, tonight I won't have to hide the need But you got love in its place In its own time and space You got love in its place in your Little Paradise Been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise Been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise Been wasting most their time Glorifying days long Wonder Stevie Glory Pop 123 No Songs 255 Postcards From Paradise 256 Paradise A Burn Lyrics gone behind Been wasting most their days In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise A postcard from paradise Delivered by mortal hands X marks the spot where you lay Now the sun burns down on the sand I watched you sleeping Listened to you breathing Wondered if you were dreaming, andf if you were What were you dreaming? And I fell under your spell And I lay where I fell So wind down your window I think I'm gonna kiss you I dont know what else to You send me Paradise a burn, paradise a burn Paradise a burn If it burn up Where everywhere we turn We'll make a fire turn up Cognitive expression Kind Of Music Nick Marsh and James William Mitchell Glory Pop Ocean Alley Death Pop Composer 124 Cognitive expression Kind Of Music No Songs Lyrics Composer 257 Trouble In Paradise Alice Merton and Nicolas Rebscher Sky Pop 258 Heaven Knows Rick Price, Heather Field Lover Pop 259 Here As In Heaven I remember those times I felt like I been dreaming Found someone who saw something That I thought I been seeing But clouds started appearing I can feel the rumbling I can feel the reeling Trouble in paradise Trouble in paradise I think I need a break from the rules that you make I think I need a break from the rules, from the rules From the rules that you make Maybe my love will come back some day Only heaven knows And maybe our hearts will find their way Only heaven knows And all I can is hope and pray Cause heaven knows We need Your presence Your kingdom come Your will be done Here as in heaven A miracle can happen now Matthews Thabo Ntele, Steven Furtick, Wade Joye Glory Rock 125 No Songs 260 Too Much Heaven 261 262 263 Lyrics Nobody gets too much heaven no more It's much harder to come by I'm waiting in line Nobody gets too much love anymore It's as high as a mountain And harder to climb Oh you and me girl Got a lot of love in store Heaven Gates Ready for the heaven gates Turn to my music, play the Kevin gateshold it in, I got so much to say Overcome my fears, baby, face to face Open Heaven Living water River wild in me Immerse me in Your mercy Open heaven Crashing over me Restore me in Your glory Heaven I don't like what I see Beside You Like the coldest winter chill Heaven beside you Hell within Like the coldest winter chill Heaven beside you… Hell within Like the coldest winter will Heaven beside you… Hell within Cognitive expression Kind Of Music Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb God Pop Yungeen Ace Glory Rap Marty Sampson, Matt Crocker God Pop Cantrell Jerry, Inez Michael Peace Rock Composer 126 No Songs 264 Here Comes Heaven 265 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 266 Heaven's Dead 267 How Beautiful Heaven Must Be Lyrics Composer Angels, let your song Aaron begin Robertson, Here comes Heaven Christopher Christ is born in Joel Bethlehem Here comes Brown, Heaven Sinner, wait no Steven more Love has broken Furtick the silence Come let us adore I was happy in the haze Marr of a drunken hour Johnny, But heaven knows I'm Morrissey miserable now Steven I was looking for a job, Patrick and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now In my life Why I give valuable time Hide in the hours before Audioslave sunrise Pray for me not, I won't lose sight Of where I belong and where you lie Heaven's dead when you get sad I see your wishes fly Out of time For the best time you've had It's made for the pure and G Jones the free These truths in God's word He has given, How beautiful heaven must be How beautiful heaven must be Cognitive expression Kind Of Music God Pop Sky Dance Life Rock Life Pop 127 No Songs 268 Heaven In A Wheelbarrow 269 South Of Heaven 270 Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven Lyrics Sweet home of the happy and free; Won't you take me to heaven in a wheelbarrow I'm going to heaven in a wheelbarrow I'm going to heaven yes sir I'm going to heaven in a wheelbarrow So won't you take me there Chaos rampant An age of distrust Confrontations Impulsive Sabbath On and on south of heaven On and on south of heaven On and on south of heaven Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die Once upon a time there lived a man and his name was Hezekiah He walked with God both day and night but he didn't wanna die He cried, "Oh, Lord, please let me live Death is close, I know Cognitive expression Kind Of Music : Keiran Semple Sky Rock Hanneman Jeffery John, King Kerry Ray, Araya Tomas E Hell Rock Loretta Lynn God Dance Composer 128 Cognitive expression Kind Of Music No Songs Lyrics Composer 271 Why Won't Heaven Help Me? Elvis Costello Life Dance 272 Heaven I Need A Hug Robert S Kelly Life Pop 273 Little Drops Of Heaven Ken Hammer Sky Rock 274 Melodies From Heaven I set off alarms and fire off flares Cause sometimes they answer prayers I'm listening I wait for some distant bell to ring Why won't heaven help me? (Far, far away) Why won't heaven help me? (It's so hard to say) I'm pullin' on my hair to keep from snappin' off Fools ride up in my camp and be actin' off Somebody out there please pray what I'm talkin' 'bout Still young tryin' to figure it out Heaven, I need a hug Is there anybody out there willin' to embrace a thug Melodies from Heaven Rain down on merain down on me Melodies from Heaven Rain down on me Rain down on me Take me in Your arms and hold me closerain down on me Rain down on me Melodies from Heaven Rain down on me Rain down on me Take me in Your arms and hold me close Kirk Franklin Glory Pop 129 No Songs 275 Heaven's A Small Town 276 Match Made In Heaven 277 Open Up Heaven Lyrics Composer They say heaven waits The Oak for the righteous Ridge Boys A road to redemption – that‟s what life is Somewhere down the blue highway I found paradise Heaven‟s a small town; heaven‟s a small town Streets ain‟t lined with gold, just the white lines No pearly gates, just a stop sign If you fall, we fall I will Nadir hear you call Khayat, Always know that baby Giorgio I am yours and you're Tuinfort, Mine, mine, mine Mohombi We're a match made in Moupondo, heaven Kinnda Mine, mine, mine, mine Hamid We're a match made in heaven When heaven opens, over Justin me, Byme, Kim I'm saturated in love, WalkerDancing deeper in Smith creativity, nothing impossible for me Stirring passion, dreams awakened, Heaven opened, is what I long to see! It's the promise I was made for, born for, To see heaven open up on earth Cognitive expression Kind Of Music Sky Pop Life Pop Sky Pop 130 No Songs 278 Samba In Heaven 279 Heaven Can Wait 280 What's Heaven Like Lyrics Composer Samba in Heaven Sergio Strollin' the beaches that Mendes don't lay Like when we were lovers And now we say that we're just friends Still wanna touch ya Even though I know this one ends A fire between us Heaven can wait 'til Hansen Kai another day 'Cause there ain't no reason to leave The world is a stage where we all can play Another fine reason to live And heaven can wait Heaven can wait He judge me by my heart Silkk The and not by my actions Shocker Shhh let them know what heaven like I really wanna know what's Heaven Like (wanna know what's heaven like) If I closed my eyes, will I see a better life (gotta be a better place than this) Is Heaven a place like I ain't never been And is Heaven a place where we don't ever sin And if there is a Heaven, what answers will find us best Cognitive expression Kind Of Music Glory Dance Life Pop Sky Pop 131 Cognitive expression Kind Of Music No Songs Lyrics Composer 281 When You Get To Heaven The Mavericks Sky Pop 282 Let's Go To Heaven In My Car Usher, Wilson Road Dance 283 Memory Of Heaven When you get to heaven, i'll be waiting When you get to heaven, i'll be there Just inside the pearly gates darling, that's where i'll wait When you get to heaven, i'll be there A midnight ride with you might cure it all Let's go to heaven in my car I wanna drive you there tonight Let's go to heaven in my car We won't be stopping for red lights Huggin' the kerbs and I'm out of control Going eye to eye with the radio This will seem like a memory of Heavens Like a memory of Heaven [x3] (Baby!) This will seem like a memory of Heaven Like a memory of Heaven [x2] Jimmy Urine Life Pop 284 Doors Of Heaven Open up the doors of heaven, let me in I think I'm finally tired of living, let me in I'm gonna walk in the glory and tell everyone my story Open up the doors of Lucinda Williams Peace Ballad 132 No Songs 285 Heaven Is In Your Arms 286 Sitting By Heaven's Door 287 If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven Lyrics heaven, let me in I try to live my life in a righteous way Heaven is in your arms dear Heaven is in your arms dear I will never let you go I will never let you go Heaven is in your arms dear Sitting by heaven's door Waiting for you to come home (I'm waiting on you to come back home, my baby) Sitting by heaven's door Waiting for you to come home (i'll be waiting, no hesitating) By the side of the river of life Where the charming roses bloom forever And where separation comes no more If we never meet again this side of heaven I will meet you on that beautiful shore Cognitive expression Kind Of Music David Allan Stewart, Lover Rock Mcelroy Foster Sky Pop Albert E Brumley God Pop Composer 133 Cognitive expression Kind Of Music No Songs Lyrics Composer 288 A Brand New Star Raitiere Aaron, Raitiere Aaron Michael Sky Pop 289 Heaven Is Counting On You Steve Millikan, Ray Boltz God Pop 290 Some Kind Of Heaven There's a brand new star Up in heaven tonight Shining down on us Glorious and bright I'm gonna miss you every day But I know that you're alright There's a brand new star Up in heaven tonight Heaven is counting on you Run with a heart that is true Carry the cross, reaching the lost Heaven is counting on you You're some kind of heaven That's all that I need I found it in you I found it in you You're some kind of heaven That's all that I need I found it in you Anderson Adam, Hutchcraft Theo Life Pop 291 Hotline To Heaven Dallin, Jolley, Fahey Hell Pop You're on a hotline to heaven Now you're all alone Riding on a hotline to heaven Standing on your own 134 Cognitive expression Kind Of Music No Songs Lyrics Composer 292 Heaven's Hung In Black Steve Edward Duren Life Pop 293 In Heaven She Walks John William Ellis Road Rock 294 Far From Heaven I can't take anymore I have no more wings I can't take anymore The gates of heaven sealed Don't you hear me Don't you hear me Don't you fear me Of never coming back Do you know what it's like When heaven's in black In scenes that drift together with some strange attraction Your style is always painted on a world of faces i'll always look for you in unexpected places I can't deny the perfect kind And we'll always be bound to be lost In heaven she walks So far from Heaven with nowhere to run Should've seen it coming, but we followed the sun Far from perfect in this universe No use fixing the things that never work So far from Heaven, So far from Heaven John Myung, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess Sky Pop 135 No Songs 295 Heaven To A Fool 296 297 298 Lyrics Like heaven to a fool All the love you wasted loving me, wish I'd opened up my eyes to see it So cruel All the seeds of love we planted but I took it all for granted like Heaven to a fool Go to hell for I‟m burning dơn every heaven‟s sake bridge we made I‟ll watch you choke on the hearts you break Paradise My love, my lover, lover, lover I‟m in paradise whenever I‟m with you My mind I will ride on dơn the road Paradise This shit be like Friday nights This shit make me feel alive I feel like we in paradise, paradise Cognitive expression Kind Of Music James Ryan Wuihun Ho, Martin Terefe, Life Pop Jordan fish Fire rock Goerge Ezra Glory Rock Andrew Bazzi Glory Pop Composer PL1 ... ? ?heaven? ?? in English and Vietnamese songs in form of expressive mapping - The similarities and differences of cognitive expressions containing ? ?heaven? ?? in English and Vietnamese songs in the cognitive. .. of ? ?heaven? ?? in English and Vietnamese songs? and what are the similarities and differences of cognitive expressions containing ? ?heaven? ?? in English and Vietnamese songs? 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