. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES LU'U THI THANH TU AN INVESTIGATION INTO CULTURAL MEANING OF LOVE DECLARATIONS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE FOLKLORES A f j^ . explain what are behind the differences uncovered in the investigation. Our thesis is entitled " ;An investigation into the cultural meaning of love declarations in English and Vietnamese folklores& quot; advance an understanding of emotion expression as a de-essentialised domain and to view it as "a cultural and interpersonal process of naming, justifying, and persuading by people in