some features of english vietnamese proverb and idiom

... Northern Vietnamese learners of English and to 30 English people via e-mails Based on both Vietnamese and English informants‟ status parameters, the researcher looks for the Vietnamese subjects of ... among English and 60% among Vietnamese Surprisingly, with the people they dislike, “saying nothing” is one of the choices of the Southern English (16.7%) And 20% compared to 40% of the Vietnamese ... investigated and demonstrated two types of disjuncts employed by Southern English and Northern Vietnamese learners of English to criticize The author has analyzed the use of those types of disjuncts...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:18

... analyzed and discussed idiomatic expressions of places in British English and Vietnamese in the light of culture, some main points are therefore noted In British English and Vietnamese, idioms of places ... the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese in terms of idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms Idiomatic Expressions Containing the Word “Dog” in English and Vietnamese Dao ... analysing the features of idiomatic expressions of places in British English and Vietnamese; - indicating influence of British culture and Vietnamese culture on language in general and idiomatic...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:32

... analyzed and discussed idiomatic expressions of places in British English and Vietnamese in the light of culture, some main points are therefore noted In British English and Vietnamese, idioms of places ... analysing the features of idiomatic expressions of places in British English and Vietnamese; - indicating influence of British culture and Vietnamese culture on language in general and idiomatic ... British English and Vietnamese idiomatic expressions of places 18 1.5.1 Influence of culture on British English idiomatic expressions of places .18 1.5.2 Influence of culture on Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:51

... account of possible similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese jokes in terms of the speech acts and conversational maxims • To provide some proposals for further study and pedagogical ... observance of maxims in English and Vietnamese jokes The chart illustrates the percentage of conversational maxim breakings when English and Vietnamese jokes carried out Different ways of maxim ... make a survey of the pragmatic competence of Vietnamese learners of English on jokes The purpose of this is to find out whether or not those learners can interpret English and Vietnamese pragmatically...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 15:59

... The speed of the SL Speaker dictates the rate of delivery by the Interpreter There is no difference in the normal speed of speech between the Vietnamese and English speakers and that of the interpreters ... primary design of the study is the application and testing of the pragmatic cognitive model of Setton in the English – Vietnamese language pair The quantitative data on the simultaneity of the interpreting ... the introduction and spread of simultaneous conference interpreting sparked off scientific interest, and the focus here is on the concept of divided attention and the synchrony of psycholinguistic...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17

... analysis of English and Vietnamese jokes First of all, English and Vietnamese jokes, particularly the set- up parts of the jokes are analyzed one by one by means of speech act theory of Austin ... analysis of the set- up in English and Vietnamese jokes - 25 2.3.2 Maxim analysis of the punch line in English and Vietnamese jokes - 28 2.3.2.1 Maxim of quantity - 28 2.3.2.2 Maxim of ... observance of maxims E joke V joke Chart 2: Ratio for non- observance of maxims in English and Vietnamese jokes The chart illustrates the percentage of conversational maxim breakings when English and Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:29

... pragmatics and some ways to help Vietnamese learners of English overcome the difficulties in translating English conditionals into Vietnamese and vice versa Furthermore, in the last part of the thesis, ... pragmatic functions of pseudo-conditionals as hedging devices in English and Vietnamese basing on Grice‟s theory of Cooperative Principle and Brown and Levinson‟s theory of Politeness Principle ... 1992), softening complaints, requests and commands (Brown & Levinson, 1987), softening performatives (Lakoff, 1972; Fraser, 1975), and softening criticism (Drechsel, 1989) Regarding the array of literature,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... levels of proficiency and ages and the specific demand related to socioscience and humane Acquire some general understanding of the people and cultures of some English- speaking countries and develop ... boiling forum of EIL is a growing body of publications and research concerning the full global dimension of English today World Englishes, English Today, and Asian Englishes are some of linguistic ... textbook English 12 Frequency and percentage of Vietnamese culture in the textbook English 12 Frequency and percentage of International culture in the textbook English 12 Frequency and percentage of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:22

... Northern Vietnamese learners of English and to 30 English people via e-mails Based on both Vietnamese and English informants’ status parameters, the researcher looks for the Vietnamese subjects of ... to find out major similarities and differences in the choice of hedging strategies in given situations by Vietnamese learners of English and native speakers of English Part III: Conclusion: This ... communication and foreign language learning and teaching in Vietnam Scope of the study - The study is confined to the verbal aspects of the act of criticism with the use of politeness and hedging...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... pragmatic relation of If - hedging with Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle in English and Vietnamese - Chapter presents an analysis of the data as well as the interpretation of the results ... Hague, Netherlands, Mouton Crompton P (1997), Hedging in Academic Writing: Some Theoretical Problems English for Specific Purposes 10 Crystal D (2008), A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, ... Academic Press 20 Groenendijk J., Stockhof M (1984), Studies in the semantics of questions and the pragmatics of answers, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Amsterdam 21 Haiman J (1978), Conditionals...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:51

... and Vietnamese in theory and in a specific political discourse in English and one in Vietnamese The analysis of nominalization gives some indication of beliefs and ideologies And these beliefs and ... of Nominalization in English and in Vietnamese? What are the Linguistic Structure and the Functions of Nominalization in English and Vietnamese Political Discourses? What are the Linguistic and ... because English and Vietnamese belong to two different language families and two different cultures This exploration enables us to have a better understanding of nominalization in English and Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... feasible (2) Off-shore Excrow account Comfort: Letter of comfort from the Government of Vietnam for foreign exchange , and transferability of site Lease and mining rights; and support of VNC and Vietcombank ... involve different tiers of lending: some secured, some unsecured; some short term and trade related, some long term; part of finance might be subordinated to the right of other lenders Commercial ... Abstract Table of Contents i ii Table of Contents List of Tables ii v List of Tables List of Figures v vi List of Figures vi Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Rationale 1.2 Statement of Problem 1.3...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 21:39

... VII Choose and underline the best answers: The weather is warm enough for us ………………………………… … (going out- to go out- go out- goes out) The earth the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are ……………………………… ... What does she think about the plan? V Give the correct form of the verbs in the blankets: 10 The Moon (move) ………………………………… … around the Earth The children (play) ... Where ………………… ….you ……………… …., Nam? ( will go – are going – did go – were go) He ………………………………… … .some souvenirs for her friends days ago (buys - bought -buy - will buy) VIII Rewrite these sentences,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2013, 01:27

... of language but the interpretation of that use needs non-linguistic features of the discourse 1.1.3.3 Features of context The best known overview of the context of situation is perhaps that of ... borders, and raise a mortal threat(7) There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and ... pronunciation and choice of words and sentence structure This type of speech may be used, for example, at official functions, and in debates and ceremonies" However, the degree of formality in...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... a recent theory of temporal semantics developed by Moens and Steedman (1988) This allows a modular representation of the semantics of temporal adverbials like "until" and "by", and also aids in ... expression of the application level semantics, and states that the destination of flight BA123 is Rome, and that the arrival time is p.m One of the possible surface level semantic descriptions of this ... which is capable of generating A range of Natural Language descriptions of the output of a database enquiry program The system uses a two level model of semantics The possibility of alternative...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... 20-60% support to one of the positions.2 Death Penalty (DP) blogs: We use University of Maryland Death Penalty Corpus (Greene and Resnik, 2009) of 1085 texts from a number of proand anti-death penalty ... best features, we take the N highest and lowest weight features, for the positive and negative classes, respectively, and retrain SVM - BOOL with these features only.8 Table 3: Consolidation of ... shows the smallest N and its proportion out of all features for which the performance of SVM BOOL with only the best N features is not significantly inferior (p1t >0.1) to that of the full feature...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... opinionated documents (Yu and Hatzivassiloglou, 2003) and sentences (Riloff et al., 2003; Riloff and Wiebe, 2003), and discriminating between positive and negative language (Turney and Littman, 2003; ... pairs of different perspectives and document collection pairs of the same perspective and others We thus evaluate the proposed test of different perspectives in the following four types of document ... sample variance of θ1 , θ2 , , θM , ˆ and Φ(·)−1 is the inverse of the standard normal cumulative density function The second kind of variance is due to the intrinsic uncertainties of data generating...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... contextual factors and triggers of disability from the perspective of adults living with HIV Features of this framework include the episodic nature of disability, a working definition of the term episodic ... trajectory of a range of types and levels of disablement (Figure 1) The trajectory includes the day-to-day health fluctuations, or 'good days' and 'bad days', super-imposed along the larger course of ... sense of control over life and the illness, 'blocking HIV out of the mind', and adopting attitudes and beliefs to help manage living with HIV Personal attributes, referred to non-modifiable Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Definition and importance of evaluation III.2 Process of evaluation IV Conclution I.Overview I.1 QUALITY What is quality? we can understand commonly that quality is the standard of as measured ... systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards II.2 The roles of evaluation  To determine the quality of a program by formulating ... use  Ease of transport and storage  Easy distribution  Ease repair  Saving fuel consumption, energy  Costs and prices The indication of product quality evaluation  Features of the products...

Ngày tải lên: 18/07/2014, 15:14