AN INVESTIGATION INTO LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF IDIOMS DENOTING WORK IN ENGLISH AND IN VIETNAMESE
Idiom is an indispensable phenomenon of languages and languages exist together with them. We cannot separate idioms from languages and vice versa. In spite of some similar features, English idioms and Vietnamese idioms are greatly different due to the difference in many aspects. My thesis is...
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Idiom is an indispensable phenomenon of languages and languages
exist together with them. We cannot separate idioms from languages and vice
versa. In spite of some similar features, English idioms and Vietnamese
idioms are greatly different due to the difference in many aspects. My thesis is
to study the syntactic, stylistic and semantic features of idioms denoting work
in English and Vietnamese. In the thesis, 216 English items and 200
Vietnamese items of idiom denoting work are under investigation.
Descriptive, contrastive and statistical research methods are used to describe,
compare and draw statistical results from the idioms in two languages. The
findings show that, although the economic, historical, cultural, belief,
religious and geographical characteristic of the two countries are quite
different, idioms denoting work of two languages have many common
characteristics in terms of syntax, stylistics and semantics. This thesis also
deals with the implications for teaching and learning English and Vietnamese
as well as for further study. |
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HỒ VŨ KHUÊ NGỌC, Ph. D |
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF IDIOMS DENOTING WORK IN ENGLISH
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF IDIOMS DENOTING WORK IN ENGLISH
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investigation into linguistic features of idioms denoting work in english
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oai:data.ufl.udn.vn:UFL-18572025-03-19T04:47:03Z AN INVESTIGATION INTO LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF IDIOMS DENOTING WORK IN ENGLISH AND IN VIETNAMESE LV ThS 437 Nguyễn Thị Mộng Dung HỒ VŨ KHUÊ NGỌC, Ph. D Idiom is an indispensable phenomenon of languages and languages exist together with them. We cannot separate idioms from languages and vice versa. In spite of some similar features, English idioms and Vietnamese idioms are greatly different due to the difference in many aspects. My thesis is to study the syntactic, stylistic and semantic features of idioms denoting work in English and Vietnamese. In the thesis, 216 English items and 200 Vietnamese items of idiom denoting work are under investigation. Descriptive, contrastive and statistical research methods are used to describe, compare and draw statistical results from the idioms in two languages. The findings show that, although the economic, historical, cultural, belief, religious and geographical characteristic of the two countries are quite different, idioms denoting work of two languages have many common characteristics in terms of syntax, stylistics and semantics. This thesis also deals with the implications for teaching and learning English and Vietnamese as well as for further study. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................1 1.1. RATIONALE..................................................................................................1 1.2. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES.............................................................................2 1.2.1. Aims......................................................................................................2 1.2.2. Objectives..............................................................................................3 1.3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH ........................................................3 1.4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS.............................................................................3 1.5. SCOPE OF THE STUDY...............................................................................3 1.6. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY.............................................................3 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL ACKGROUND .....................................................................................................5 2.1. LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................5 2.2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND................................................................8 2.2.1. Overview of Idioms ..............................................................................8 2.2.2. Overview of English and Vietnamese Phrases...................................14 2.2.3. Overview of Stylistic Devices ............................................................20 2.2.4. Overview of Semantic Fields..............................................................22 2.3. SUMMARY ..................................................................................................23 CHAPTER 3. METHODS AND PROCEDURES ..........................................24 3.1. RESEARCH METHODS..............................................................................24 3.2. SAMPLE DESCRIPTION AND POPULATION........................................24 3.3. DATA COLLECTION..................................................................................25 3.4. DATA ANALYSIS.......................................................................................25 3.5. RESEARCH PROCEDURES.......................................................................26 3.6. RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY................................................................26 3.7. SUMMARY ..................................................................................................26 CHAPTER 4. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ..............................................27 4.1. SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDW .....27 4.1.1. Syntactic Features of English and Vietnamese IDW with Phrase Patterns..........................................................................................................27 4.1.2. The Similarities and Differences between the Syntactic Features of English and Vietnamese IDW.......................................................................44 4.2. STYLISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDW........46 4.2.1. Stylistic Features of IDW in English and in Vietnamese ...................46 4.2.2. The Similarities and Differences between the Stylistic Features of English and Vietnamese IDW.......................................................................54 4.3. SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDW .......56 4.3.1. Semantic Fields of EIDW and VIDW ................................................56 4.3.2. The Similarities and Differences between the Semantic Features of English and Vietnamese Idioms Denoting Work .........................................71 4.4. SUMMARY ..................................................................................................73 CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS...............................75 5.1. CONCLUSIONS...........................................................................................75 5.2. IMPLICATIONS...........................................................................................77 5.2.1. Implications for Language Learning...................................................77 5.2.2. Implications for Language Teaching ..................................................79 5.3. LIMITATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH.....80 5.3.1 Limitations of the Research .................................................................80 5.3.2 Suggestions for Further Studies...........................................................81 REFERENCES...................................................................................................82 QU ẾT ĐỊ H IAO ĐỀ TÀI THẠC SĨ (BẢ SAO) 2025-03-19T04:46:58Z 2025-03-19T04:46:58Z 2014 Thesis https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1857 en application/pdf application/pdf Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ |