A STUDY OF LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF PROVERBS DENOTING FRIENDSHIP IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
Proverbs are part of the oral tradition of a cultural group. Although they share some common ground, English proverbs and Vietnamese proverbs differ greatly due to cultural differences. This thesis is to study the syntactic and semantic features of English and Vietnamese proverbs denoting fr...
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Proverbs are part of the oral tradition of a cultural group. Although they
share some common ground, English proverbs and Vietnamese proverbs
differ greatly due to cultural differences. This thesis is to study the syntactic
and semantic features of English and Vietnamese proverbs denoting
friendship. In the thesis, 100 English proverb samples and 100 Vietnamese
proverb samples denoting friendship are investigated. Both qualitative and
quantitative research instruments is used and 200 proverbs in two languages
together with numerous of examples from various linguistics books,
dictionaries, short stories and from the internet are taken into consideration
and full study. The findings show that proverbs denoting friendship have
remarkable syntactic and semantic features and there are interesting
similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese in some
features. This thesis also deals with the implications for teaching and learning
English as a foreign language in Vietnam for teachers and students of English
as well as for further study |
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HỒ VŨ KHUÊ NGỌC, Ph. D. |
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A STUDY OF LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF PROVERBS DENOTING FRIENDSHIP IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE |
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study of linguistic features of proverbs denoting friendship in english and vietnamese |
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oai:data.ufl.udn.vn:UFL-18472025-03-19T04:44:06Z A STUDY OF LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF PROVERBS DENOTING FRIENDSHIP IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE LV ThS 430 Huỳnh Thị Kiều Hưng HỒ VŨ KHUÊ NGỌC, Ph. D. Proverbs are part of the oral tradition of a cultural group. Although they share some common ground, English proverbs and Vietnamese proverbs differ greatly due to cultural differences. This thesis is to study the syntactic and semantic features of English and Vietnamese proverbs denoting friendship. In the thesis, 100 English proverb samples and 100 Vietnamese proverb samples denoting friendship are investigated. Both qualitative and quantitative research instruments is used and 200 proverbs in two languages together with numerous of examples from various linguistics books, dictionaries, short stories and from the internet are taken into consideration and full study. The findings show that proverbs denoting friendship have remarkable syntactic and semantic features and there are interesting similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese in some features. This thesis also deals with the implications for teaching and learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam for teachers and students of English as well as for further study TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION.................................................................. 1 1.1 RATIONALE.............................................................................................. 1 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ........................................................................ 4 1.2.1 Aims .................................................................................................. 4 1.2.2 Objectives.......................................................................................... 4 1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY............................................................ 4 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY........................................................................... 4 1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION........................................................................... 5 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY......................................................... 5 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ............................................................................................. 7 2.1 PREVIOUS RESEARCHES....................................................................... 7 2.2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND.......................................................... 14 2.2.1. Proverbs.......................................................................................... 14 2.2.2. Proverbs and Idioms....................................................................... 20 2.2.3. Typical Features of Proverbs ......................................................... 24 2.2.4. Notion of Proverbs Denoting Friendship....................................... 34 2.2.5. Types of sentences in English in Terms of structures.................... 34 2.2.6. Types of sentences in English in Terms of Syntactic classes........ 38 2.2.7 Types of sentences in Vietnamese in term of structures................. 39 2.2.8. Types of sentences in Vietnamese in term of syntactic classes..... 46 2.2.9. Semantic Features of English Proverbs ......................................... 46 2.2.10. Semantic Features of Vietnamese Proverbs................................. 47 2.3 SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 48 CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURES ................ 50 3.1 RESEARCH METHODS ......................................................................... 50 3.2 RESEARCH PROCEDURES................................................................... 51 3.2.1 Data collection................................................................................. 51 3.2.2 Data analysis ................................................................................... 51 3.3 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY............................................................ 52 3.4 SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 53 CHAPTER 4. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ....................................... 54 4.1 SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE FDPs ... 54 4.1.1 Syntactic Features of English and Vietnamese FDPs in Terms of Structure .................................................................................................... 55 4.1.2 Syntactic Features of English and Vietnamese FDPs in Terms of Syntactic Classes...................................................................................... 63 4.2 SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE FDPs .. 65 4.2.1 Semantic Features Based on Kinds of Meaning ............................. 65 4.2.2. Semantic Features Based on Semantic Types................................ 68 4.3 SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 72 CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS.......................... 73 5.1 CONCLUSIONS....................................................................................... 73 5.2 IMPLICATIONS....................................................................................... 75 5.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY............................................................ 76 5.4 SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FUTHER RESEARCH ............................... 77 REFRENCES................................................................................................. 78 QUYẾT ĐỊNH GIAO ĐỀ TÀI LUẬN VĂN THẠC SĨ (BẢN SAO) 2025-03-19T04:44:01Z 2025-03-19T04:44:01Z 2014 Thesis https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1847 en application/pdf application/pdf Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng |