Luận văn An investigation into syntactic and semantic features of english and vietnamese idioms containing cognitive verbs

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into syntactic and semantic features of english and vietnamese idioms containing cognitive verbs: ...l meaning. 2.3.2.2. Lexical Meaning. Unlike common words, the meaning of an idiom follows a different rule as follows: - As a set block and generalization. Even though an idiom is composed of words, its meaning is not the combination of the meaning of each element forming it. - As a sy...structed on the basis of describing events and phenomena by means of metaphor. ICCVs are constructed on the basis of describing events and phenomenon by means of metaphor. To understand the meaning of an idiom, we must use an imaginative way to describe the relationship between words and e...arbitrary at all. Most of these idioms are related to cultural knowledge in interpreting their meanings and there must be some co-relation between the cognitive verbs and the quality of behavior or attitude: dying to know (very eager to know something), not know what hit you (to feel very ...