... VINH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
ĐỖ THANH NHÀN
A STUDY ON METAPHORS OF LOVE IN
ENGLISH
(NGHIÊN CỨU CÁC ẨN DỤ VỀ TÌNH YÊU TRONG TIẾNG ANH)
GRADUATION THESIS
FIELD: ...
1.2. Source Domain and Target Doma...
... types of
face, they can be lost, threatened, damaged, or maintained, and
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elevated. Brown and Levinson also claim that certain speech acts are
inherently face-threatening, i.e. they may threaten ... and Vietnamese.
After selecting and classifying the data into categories that are
set in the outline, we described, analyzed and made a contrastive
analysis to clarify the similariti...
... than one way, leading to different
meanings for the sentence as a whole. Such ambiguity is called 'grammatical ambiguity.'
Compare tables (1) and (2) for an example of grammatical ambiguity:
(1) ... functions
of the last two constituents can vary, creating two different meanings. Compare tables (3) and
(4).
(3) An example of grammatical ambiguity at the clause rank, interpre...
... observation and
investigation are used to collect data. Observation and investigation
techniques can be part of qualitative approach as well as quantitative
approach. They are the proper instruments ...
3.4. Data Analysis
Data collected will be mainly analyzed on the basis of the
following points:
Syntactically, the classification of the data is mainly based on
the different str...
... are aware of the existence of collocation.
Instead, they give more importance to grammar and the grammar-
translation approach has played a key role in the teaching of English
in Vietnam for ... to analyze and interpret the
collocation of words in the language of sports is not an easy task for
students in Vietnam. Certainly, there are also translations of terms
cha...
... to using metaphor in teaching,
learning, translating, writing and reading of English and Vietnamese
newspapers. The findings of study on similarities and differences
between metaphor in English ... expressing metaphors in newspapers in English and Vietnamese. The
metaphorical expressions are analyzed in terms of syntactic and semantic
aspects. In addition, the...
... get
information or entertain.
• Participating in a face-to-face conversation, discussing work as a partner.
• Watching a film, a play or a TV program to entertain.
• Participating in a meeting, ... three of those factors that affect
significantly to learners in learning a language in general and in learning listening
skill in particular. Those factors are learn...
... Grammar, 1985) observes that in all languages, the
clause has the character of a message: it has some form of organization giving it a status of a
communicative event. In English, as in many ... particular combinations of person and evidential with
particular predicate types. For example, a predicate indicating something
about an internal state may be used with a...
... việc anh đến đón tôi vào sáng mai.)
but a normal Vietnamese may possibly regard it as the blame
2.4 An analysis on English downtoners and Vietnamese equivalence
2.4.1 Equivalence case in English ... Rather a chance but we cannot say fairly a chance or pretty a
chance
(iv) certain verbs:
- John rather annoys me but we cannot say John fairly annoys me
or John pretty anno...