WATER AND FIRE AS METAPHORS IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE SHORT STORIES OF THE 20 TH CENTURY

This study examined the differences between Chinese American and White American parents on childrearing viewpoints in the 21st century. Factors affecting their viewpoints on parenting styles, such as culture and parents’ beliefs and expectations were specifically considered. For White American pare[r]

A CorpusBased Study of Mixed Metaphor
As a Metalinguistic Comment
Elena Semino
Lancaster University (UK)
e.seminolancaster.ac.uk
The notion of “mixed metaphor” is traditionally associated with the prescriptive injunction that,
whatever it is, it must be avoided. Metaphor scholars have attempted to d[r]

In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centraliz[r]

I watched the movie “Pride and Prejudice” a few of years ago and I have had a deep impression on the movie. Therefore, when doing the thesis, I choose it to be able to understand the novel more. The main topic of the work “Pride and Prejudice”, written by the female author Jane Austen, is love and m[r]

Water is a transparent fluid which forms the worlds streams, lakes, oceans and rain, and is the major constituent of the fluids of living things. As a chemical compound, a water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms that are connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at standard am[r]

The greatest American novel to emerge from World War I, _A Farewell to Arms_ cemented Ernest Hemingways reputation as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. Drawn largely from Hemingways own experiences, it is the story of a volunteer ambulance driver wounded on the Italian fr[r]

TRANG 1 hanoi national university College of Foreign Languages Post – graduate Department ************************* Nguyễn hồng quyên Integrating short stories and poems in developing th[r]

This study is an attempt to describe, analyse, compare contrast English and Vietnamese root and epistemic modality as realized by modal verbs from Cognitive perspective, more specifically in terms of force dynamic framework. The study is both descriptive and contrastive in nature. The main aim of th[r]

1. Rationale
INTRODUCTION
I have finished the MA course in English linguistics, and it is time for me to complete the final
thesis which partly shows what I have got from this very useful programme. There are many
things to write about but I choose to study on Relative clauses in English and i[r]

The success of Starbucks Coffee Company is one of the most amazing business stories in decades. What started as a single store on Seattles waterfront has grown into a company with over sixteen hundred stores worldwide and a new one opening every single business day. Just as remarkable as this incred[r]

Question 18
With Robert Laurent and William Zorach, direct carving enters into the story of
modern sculpture in the United States. Direct carving ― in which the sculptors
themselves carve stone or wood with mallet and chisel ― must be recognized as
Line something more than just a technique. Impli[r]

small businesses. And with its trade agreement partners, the United States is working to developways for small businesses to take greater advantage of the economic opportunities created by theseagreements. The Administration also is committed to improving women's a[r]

Practice Task 1: THE GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHODRefer to the principles and techniques of the Grammar Translation Method, prepare thesteps for teaching this text.A Wet NightLate in the afternoon, the boys put up their tent in the m[r]

Metaphor is one of the key elements greatly contributing to the variety and beauty of literary works, particularly in poetry and stories. There, however, are few research papers or studies focusing much on the significance of metaphor along with its types used in these literary works. Although numer[r]

VNU Journal of Science: Foreign Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2015) 25-36Expressing Satisfaction in American English and Vietnamese(as Seen from the Categorical Dimension ofDirectness-Indirectness)Nguyễn Thị Thùy Linh*Faculty of English, VNU Univers[r]

This study examines the similarities and differences in the application of giving criticism between the American and Vietnamese judges in two reality shows: America’s got Talent and Vietnam’s got Talent. The research primarily focuses on the popularity and preference of employing criticizing strateg[r]

The present study focuses on the evaluation of translation quality of EnglishVietnamese fictional prose, more specifically, of EnglishVietnamese short stories. To achieve this aim, we have taken the data from Australian Short Stories collection (2005). The data comprise five Australian short stories[r]