A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective

This study aimed to discover the syntactic, semantic in the light of cognitive semantics of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese. The study was carried out through the adoption of qualitative, contrastive approaches to examine syntactic and semantic devices signaling the conceptu...

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spelling oai:data.ufl.udn.vn:UFL-15372025-03-19T02:26:44Z A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective Lvths2011-60.22.15.58 cognitive semantics perspective down in english This study aimed to discover the syntactic, semantic in the light of cognitive semantics of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese. The study was carried out through the adoption of qualitative, contrastive approaches to examine syntactic and semantic devices signaling the conceptual meaning of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese. I would like to collect sentences, phrases containing instances of “up” – “down” and” and “lên” – “xuống” in both languages from books, novels, short stories, dictionaries with 300 English samples and 300 Vietnamese ones as the population of the observed instances. The most important and significant aspect of the study, the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese ways of orienting “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese in the light of cognitive semantics, was presented in order to help learners, teachers and translators have better use of these orentational prepositions. In view of cognitive semantics, not only do “up” – “down” denote quantity senses and “lên” – “xuống” denote senses of status but they also denote a number of other senses. This thesis also provided some suitable methods to coding the meaning of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese. 2025-03-19T02:26:39Z 2025-03-19T02:26:39Z 2011 Thesis https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1537 en application/msword Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng
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A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
description This study aimed to discover the syntactic, semantic in the light of cognitive semantics of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese. The study was carried out through the adoption of qualitative, contrastive approaches to examine syntactic and semantic devices signaling the conceptual meaning of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese. I would like to collect sentences, phrases containing instances of “up” – “down” and” and “lên” – “xuống” in both languages from books, novels, short stories, dictionaries with 300 English samples and 300 Vietnamese ones as the population of the observed instances. The most important and significant aspect of the study, the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese ways of orienting “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese in the light of cognitive semantics, was presented in order to help learners, teachers and translators have better use of these orentational prepositions. In view of cognitive semantics, not only do “up” – “down” denote quantity senses and “lên” – “xuống” denote senses of status but they also denote a number of other senses. This thesis also provided some suitable methods to coding the meaning of “up” –“down” in English and “lên” –“xuống” in Vietnamese.
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title A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
title_short A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
title_full A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
title_fullStr A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
title_full_unstemmed A study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
title_sort study of "up" - "down" in english and "lên" - "xuống" in vietnamese: a cognitive semantics perspective
publisher Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng
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