Luận văn An investigation into semantic features of adjectives denoting ‘big’and their vietnamese translational equivalents

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into semantic features of adjectives denoting ‘big’and their vietnamese translational equivalents: ...ing in morphemic composition, phonemic shape, shades of meaning, connotations, style, valence and idiomatic use. Jackson (2007) indicates that many linguists take this position and make a distinction between ‘strict’ or ‘absolute’ synonyms and ‘loose’ synonyms. Jackson (2007) pointed out t...vels and short stories of which English was the source language. The works of Margaret Mitchell, Jack London, Mario Puzo, Hemingway and Colleen McCullough, were all examined, including Gone With The Wind, The Call of The Wild, The Godfather, The Old Man and the Sea and The Thorn Birds resp... The first group consists of adjectives expressing the descriptive meaning - Big in size or quantity of objects. The second group belong to those that express the evaluative meaning - Big in degree and Big in value. In comparison - 20 - with two above meaning categories, in this level, Big...