Luận văn An investigation into conceptual metaphors used for describing happiness and sadness in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into conceptual metaphors used for describing happiness and sadness in english and vietnamese: ... a literature review and theoretical background of conceptual metaphors. - Describing and analyzing the collected data for finding out the conceptual metaphors used for describing happiness and sadness in English and Vietnamese poems through descriptive and analytical methods. - Analyzin...ent Sadness is death Sadness is a captive animal Sadness is a fluid in a container Sadness -The night is dark, the waters deep, [64] The storm is in my soul. -Nếu phải cách xa anh Em chỉ còn bão tố. -He was seized by a fit of depression [94] Before the beginning of year...in both languages. Although Vietnamese shares exactly the same metaphorical concept, it has many different lexical expressions that express sadness in terms of downward orientation such as ũ rủ, rũ rượi, cuối đầu, sụp, đổ, lã chã. In Vietnamese, downward orientation is also applied to the bo...