The thesis “A contrastive study of English and Vietnamese proverbs about moral values of family relationships” attempts to investigate syntactic and cultural features of English and Vietnamese proverbs about moral values of family relationships. The study
The study deals with English proverbs denoting money with reference to the Vietnamese equivalents. The objectives of study are tofind out the similarities and differences between the English proverbs denoting money and Vietnamese ones in structural and se
Syntactic features: there are more differences than similarities between EWPI and VWPI. EWPI display four sentence types: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and irregular sentences; meanwhile, there are only three sentence types used
This thesis studies the Conceptual Metaphor of Dog idioms and proverbs between Vietnamese and English the framework theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980/2003) Kovesces (2002). Who also claimed that Dog is an abstract concept which is often understood via co