English and Vietnamese cultural perspective

Graduation thesis "A study on ways to describe and express emotions through food in English and Vietnamese, interpreting through word analysis through cultural perspectives" aimed to determine the influence and emotional dependence of eating on different personalities, similarities or differences in personality traits leading to emotional expression in the two languages.

48p daonhiennhien 03-07-2024 4 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 18 6   Download

This study aimed to gain an understanding of negative L1 transfer on the use of English prepositions from a CL perspective. Since there is a vast difference between English and Vietnamese prepositions both in their cognition and the structure of the two languages, Vietnamese learners might transfer some of their cognition from their language, culture, and lived experience to their English usage.

219p linyanjun_2408 21-04-2022 15 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.

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This study aims at investigating the use of euphemisms of death and sex in English and Vietnamese poems. Specifically, the study seeks to explore how death and sex euphemisms are used in the poems and identify the similarities and differences in their use from a cultural perspective.

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This study provides some insights into the use of speech acts by Vietnamese EFL learners from a cross-cultural perspective. It is suggested that the influence of culture has resulted in students’ common failures to understand and perform English speech acts. To minimize this kind of pragmatic failure, it is recommended that EFL teachers raise students’ awareness of some cultural issues in cross-cultural communication. Furthermore, it is necessary to incorporate speech acts into English language teaching with authentic input and lifelike communicative activities.

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This study is carried out to investigate the area of addressing terms between members in families in Vietnamese and English culture from major perspectives namely the common terms and the affecting factors on the choice of the terms. There are 200 people who are from different Vietnamese and English families take part in this study.

77p minhxaminhyeu1 06-05-2019 67 10   Download

The objective of the thesis is to determine what factors constitute organizational culture; from which to build the system of cultural recognition criteria in enterprises on the basis of synthesizing and generalizing the arguments about organizational culture, from the managerial perspective.

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The thesis aims to point out the similarities and differences in the way English and Vietnamese native speakers making invitations. The thesis, in addition, aims to give an insight into making invitations for English majors in Dong Thap university. moreover, it is intended to provide some reliable implications for teaching invitation making to English majors in Dong Thap University.

91p nickluvik123 03-07-2014 199 23   Download