Conceptual metaphors

This study aims to explore the cultural, pragmatic, and social concepts encoded in shop sign language through cultural metaphors. The data was collected and observed from American and Vietnamese contexts respectively.

17p viling 11-10-2024 0 0   Download

Bài viết Khảo sát ẩn dụ ý niệm cấu trúc của mùa xuân trong thơ tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt bước đầu khảo sát ẩn dụ ý niệm cấu trúc (conceptual structural metaphor) của mùa xuân trên cứ liệu 500 mẫu được rút ra từ 100 bài thơ tiếng Anh và 150 bài thơ tiếng Việt, đồng thời nêu ra sự giống và khác nhau của ẩn dụ này ở cả hai ngôn ngữ.

5p visaleen 30-10-2022 24 3   Download

This article presents a contrastive analysis of conceptual metaphors (CMs) denoting the concept of “Life” in English and Vietnamese lyric songs. Based on the theoretical background of many linguists, especially Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Lee (2001), Kovêcses (2005, 2010), as well as the data collected from the questionnaire and interviews, the study investigates and explores the similarities and differences in CMs of “Life” between the two languages from the cognitive perspective.

5p vilexus 05-10-2022 17 6   Download

The thesis aims at examining the metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese songs in the light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Subsequently, a comparison is made to find out the similarities and differences between the conceptual metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese song lyrics when SEASON is treated as a target domain as well as a source domain. Simultaneously, several explanations are given as causes for these similarities and differences.

230p caphesuadathemtieu 02-03-2022 19 4   Download

This study primarily concentrates on the metaphors used in economic reports. Its aim is to have an insight into how metaphors are correlated to human physical experience and constructed in economic reports. In addition, the analysis of this correlation will set foundation for later categorization of the source domains which are exploited in the metaphors in these economic reports.

87p closefriend09 16-11-2021 22 4   Download

This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

59p closefriend09 16-11-2021 27 3   Download

The study is intended to fulfill the following objectives: Investigating how conceptual metaphors denoting fear are expressed in English and Vietnamese short stories from cognitive perspective; discovering and explaining the similarities and differences in conceptual metaphors of fear in English and Vietnamese short stories.

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To achieve this aim, the following objectives are set: Identifying the conceptual metaphors present in the English novel and their linguistic expressions; comparing the conceptual metaphors in the English source text and the Vietnamese target text to reveal the translation procedures used.

83p closefriend09 16-11-2021 21 5   Download

Studying this thesis, that gets a lot of knowledge to understand more about the items of cognitive linguistics. Studying, applying, using cognitive linguistics is of large significance with us in dealing with numerous problems of linguistics that was not explained by classic theory. Especially with foreign language learners like me, cognitive linguistics opened a new view so that they can approach foreign language easier.

130p camtucau99 08-12-2019 35 5   Download

Among matters being researched dealing with cognitive linguistics, metaphor has been dramatically taken into consideration and regarded as a specific mental mapping that provide a foundation for human thought and conceptualization.

10p thiendiadaodien_5 08-01-2019 33 1   Download

Bài viết Ẩn dụ ý niệm trong bài thơ Tràng Giang của Huy Cận trình bày ẩn dụ ý niệm (conceptual metaphors) là một khái niệm của Ngữ nghĩa học tri nhận. Tìm hiểu những ẩn dụ ý niệm trong Tràng giang của Huy Cận, một mặt giới thiệu những hình ảnh ẩn dụ phổ quát, quen thuộc trong tư duy của người Việt,... Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo.

7p thienthandoremon 31-05-2018 194 11   Download

Examine the description of semantic features of metaphor in English and Vietnamese idioms denoting human feelings; discover some similarities and differences in using idiomatic metaphor especially those used in English and Vietnamese idioms denoting human feelings.

13p bautroibinhyen27 04-05-2017 120 14   Download

The aim of the thesis is to apply the theory in cognitive linguistics to Vietnamese to establish the conceptual structure and conceptual domain “food”, discover the target domains, the source domains, mapping system and the mapping mechanism among the conceptual domains; codifying metaphorical notion of "food" in Vietnamese in order to study cognitive characteristics and Vietnamese cultural identity through conceptual metaphor of "food”.

29p change03 06-05-2016 85 9   Download

Việc dạy và học thành ngữ tiếng Anh luôn gây nhiều khó khăn cho cả giáo viên lẫn học viên. Từ quan điểm của ngôn ngữ học tri nhận, bài báo trình bày thuyết ẩn dụ ý niệm và đề xuất áp dụng lí thuyết này để dạy các tổ hợp thành ngữ tiếng Anh. Qua việc phân tích ẩn dụ ý niệm ở một số thành ngữ minh họa, tác giả chứng minh rằng nghĩa của thành ngữ được tạo thành từ các ẩn dụ ý niệm chứ không phải có tính võ đoán và trình bày những đề xuất cho việc giảng dạy tiếng Anh.

7p nganga_01 04-09-2015 86 12   Download