COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF IDIOMS RELATED TO THE CONCEPT OF “BLACK” “WHITE” IN ENGLISH VERSUS VIETNAMESE
Idioms could be considered to be an invaluable treasure in all languages among which English and Vietnamese is not an exception. Idioms as a crystallization of culture reflect the world view and perception of a community. As a result, idioms have an intertwined relationship with the cognitio...
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Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ
2025
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| Online adgang: | https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1830 |
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| Summary: | Idioms could be considered to be an invaluable treasure in all languages
among which English and Vietnamese is not an exception. Idioms as a
crystallization of culture reflect the world view and perception of a
community. As a result, idioms have an intertwined relationship with the
cognition and the culture of a country. Indeed, when learning idioms we could
understand the cultural features of the country in which the idioms are
natively used. Nevertheless, this learning may be difficult for learners of a
language in general and a foreign language in particular in that their meanings
are unpredictable, the structures are fixed and noticeably they are inevitably
underpinned by their cultural cognitive features.
This paper is to contrast semantic and syntactic features and rhetorical
devices of English idioms and Vietnamese idioms related to the concept of
“Black”, “White” under the viewpoint of cognitive perspective. Both
qualitative and quantitative analysis is conducted basing on 226 idioms (100
English idioms and 126 Vietnamese idioms) collected from many different
resources such as English – Vietnamese dictionaries, Vietnamese-English
dictionaries, books, short stories, newspaper and the Internet. The findings
show that idioms related to the concept of “Black”, “White” in English and
Vietnamese have remarkable semantic and syntactic features and rhetorical
devices. According to the analysis of Cognitive perspective, they have some
similarities and differences in some features. On the other hand, from the
findings of this thesis, we can get insight understanding about the cultural
origin of both English idioms and Vietnamese idioms related to the concept of
“Black”, “White”. The paper also dealt with the implications for teaching,
learning and translating English and Vietnamese idioms related to the concept
of “Black”, “White” as well as put forward some suggestions for further study. |
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