This study aims at: - Investigating the similarities and differences in the use of these softening expressions of death in English and Vietnamese in terms of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic features. - Finding out how expressions of death are used in English and Vietnamese in terms of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic features. - Helping the learners of English and Vietnamese acquire a better understanding of the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic features of expressions of death in the two languages. - Ph.D. Ho Thi Kieu Oanh (Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng, 2025)