An investigation of idioms by clothes in English and Vietnamese in terms of structural and semantic components is carried out in the present study. Componential analysis, describing, comparing and contrasting are regarded as the main methods used in the c

This thesis discusses about the English conditional sentences in the novel “The Red and the Black” by Stendhal. The research is conducted to examine the structures and usage of conditional sentences in English, find out all kinds of conditional sentences

Metaphor has been studied for a long time by many linguists. For traditional schools of linguistics, metaphor is merely a figure of speech used in literature. However, cognitive linguistics presents a different view of metaphor stating that metaphor is no

Metaphors have been a topic for studies since as early as more than 2000 years ago. Metaphors have attracted quite a number of researchers who are interested in linguistics, rhetorics, literary critics, etc. Metaphors are commonly seen as th