...
Vietnamese also share similarities in position, semantic classification and subordinators.
* Similarity in position
In the two languages, adverbial clauses can appear in initial, medial and final ... based on contrastive analysis. The two steps of contrastive analysis method :
description and comparison are especially of full use in chapter V dealing with ad...
... name
based on the association of identical features and this is actually a
hidden comparison.
b. Metonymy
According to Arnold, metonymy can be defined a transfer
based on the aasociation ... suggestions for translational equivalents in
Vietnamese and English of the adjectives Black and Đen
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5.2. IMPLICATIONS ON TEACHING, LEARNING AND
TRANSLATION
5.2.1. Implica...
... teachers. The
contrastive analysis is made intra- and interlingually: English negative
questions with Vietnamese counterparts. The contrastive analysis involves
two stages: the description ... makes the focus of
negation not as ambiguous as the scope of negations they also have a certain
contribution to finding appropriate account for ambiguity in the scope of
ne...
... an ordinary verb, sharing the typical syntactic functions of a verb, as following:
(a) Being part of the predicate of a sentence. For example:
- Barack Obama's campaign ran a 30-minute advertisement ... software); runway (a hard surface along with aircraft take off and
land); runner up (candidate, contestant; one who finishes second in a competition);
runaround (evasive...
...
biculturalism and bilingualism are two sides of the same coin.
2.2.5. Semantic features
2.2.5.1. Components of meaning:
a. Denotation
As defined in the Longman Dictionary of Language
Teaching and ... Connotation
Connotation is the additional meanings that a word or phrase
has beyond its central meaning. Milled and Laird [16, p.131] states
his idea of the connotative mea...
... great
influence on the intonation and accent of Vietnamese. Intonation exists in every language.
But Vietnamese intonation plays a special role in dividing the grammatical units and
sentences into ... simple
explanation.”
Semantically, modal auxiliaries allow the speaker to introduce a personal interpretation of
the non-factual and non-temporal elements of the event. In...
... operator. Semantically speaking, Frank has pointed out the importance of
negation in establishing a counter–part” of affirmation. Grammatically speaking, the insertion
of “not” in predicate ... operator in a negative, here, operator is
not a normal auxiliary expressing grammatical function, but a modal auxiliary. With a negative
modal auxiliary, verb phrase falls into...
... appropriate in the first case.
Newmark (1988: 213) claims that a key issue in translation is to find a suitable
collocation; indeed if meaning is largely collocational as Sinclair suggests, then in a ... meaning of words and expressions began as metaphors,
and their utility has made them conventional. An example of this is the economic
term “inflation”, whose original non-meta...
... draw having trailed by a goal and a man against
Barcelona.
He didn't say this but he probably also felt that inferences
would once again be drawn about Qatar's methods of winning ...
utterance: initial, medial and final in the MenP. Most MAs in English
and Vietnamese can assume the initial position as thematic mood
adjuncts expressing probability, certainty and int...