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Chapter three compares and contrasts syntactic and semantic features of directive expressing means in English and Vietnamese. First of all, the author compares the realizations of the declarative and interrogative patterns which[r]
business: Darwinian metaphors in value of war metaphors in Capablanca, José Raúl cap-and-trade legislation capitalism, and competition, 3.1, 8.1 cash flows, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 celebrities Cen[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]
Today, the number of English speakers is increasing rapidly. Following the survey of Crystal (2006), there are one billion of people who use English as the second language and still continue. For its convenience, leaners can use to travel, study, discover new cultures and environments. By the way, t[r]
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In the theory of Cognitive Grammar, the semantic component includes Idealized Cognitive Models and maps, domains of experience, image schemas, conceptual metaphors and metonymies, protot[r]
Equivalence is one of the crucial issues in translation studies that have constantly received much attention of researchers since the birth of translation studies. Translation equivalence is linked to both linguistic and cultural aspects; however, in the thesis, equivalence is studied in the relatio[r]
In the light of theoretical background of speech act, politeness in the light of crosscultural communication, this study investigates the cultural transfer on the way Vietnamese students of English offer English invitations. Data in this study are gathered via questionnaires. For the purpose of inv[r]
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In the light of theoretical background of speech act, politeness in the light of crosscultural communication, this study investigates the cultural transfer on the way Vietnamese students of English offer English invitations. Data in this study are gathered via questionnaires. For the purpose of inv[r]
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The object of the research is the predicator, the participants and the circumstances in the verbal process in English and in Vietnamese. The scope of the research is the grammatical, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the predicator, the participants and the circumstances in the verbal proces[r]