Luận văn An investigation into syntactic, semantic and cultural features of idioms denoting life and death in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into syntactic, semantic and cultural features of idioms denoting life and death in english and vietnamese: ...o problems”. [19, p.14] “Idioms are fixed phrases being used to express a concept.” [19, p.18] We cannot add, remove any word from idioms or change their orders without breaking their meanings. In addition, the meanings of idioms cannot be inferred from the meanings of its parts. Whereas, ...tnamese LDIs will be collected from dictionaries published by popular publishers and reliable websites; examples which are used in context will be collected from published books, novels, short stories, newspapers, magazines and reliable website on the internet. 3.2.2. Data analysis With ...n forming idioms such as repeated theme, intermittent repeated rhythm and alliteration. Besides, the structures of LDIs in English in each phrasal type are more than in Vietnamese. For example, there are 10 types of construction of English LDIs in form of verb phrase and Vietnamese ones ha...