Luận văn A study of metaphor in newspapers (english versus vietnamese)

Tóm tắt Luận văn A study of metaphor in newspapers (english versus vietnamese): ...lperin (1981) gives the comparison between simile and metaphor. A simile is a comparison using “like” or “as” while functional words like “like” or “as’ are ellipses in metaphors. Both similes and metaphors link one thing to another. A simile usually uses “as” or “like”. A metaphor is a co...imilarities in Syntactic Features of Metaphors in English and Vietnamese Newspapers From the result summarized in table 4.5, we can see most of metaphors in both languages appeared in the form of noun phrases, adjective phrases and verb phrases. Journalists also used prepositional phrases ...rnalists use metaphorical expressions with frequency different. We can find in table 4.10 below, the group of metaphors denoting color is accounted 7.8% versus 12.5% in Vietnamese newspapers. In contrast, the group of metaphors denoting war in English newspapers is used more in Vietnamese (1...