The study is basically studied the syntactic, semantic and cultural characteristics of English idioms and proverbs relating to women in comparison with Vietnamese ones. More importantly, providing language learners with a basic knowledge of this field will help them master the meaning of idioms and proverbs, and easily and naturally translating them to each of these languages. | 1 2 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING The thesis has been completed at the College of Foreign Languages, Danang University UNIVERSITY OF DANANG Supervisor: NGUYEN VAN LONG, Ph. D H TH HOÀNG NGÂN Examiner 1: NGUYEN TAT THANG, Ph. D AN INVESTIGATION INTO IDIOMS AND PROVERBS RELATING TO WOMEN Examiner 2: LE TAN THI, Ph. D IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE Field Study: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE The thesis to be orally defended at the Examining Committee. Code : Time: 29/10/2012 Venue: Danang University MASTER THESIS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (SUMMARY) This thesis is available found at the libraries of : - Information Resources, University of Da Nang. Danang, 2012 - College of Foreing Langueges, University of Da Nang. 3 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION RATIONALE Language is often described as a living thing. We can say that it is the most useful and interesting thing that human-being creates and possesses. And idioms and proverbs are very popular language phenomena that people use to express their ideas, experience, desire, love affairs, and feelings. Additionally, each nation or language has a different culture with different characteristics; therefore, cultural aspects are prominently considered to play an important part in decoding idioms and proverbs. In reality, we often get troubles in our attempt to understand and use of idioms and proverbs. Idioms and proverbs provide the language of mouth and the language of literature with a form of concise expression. Therefore, they are very emotive and persuasive to convey widely thoughts, ideas and feelings. With a short way, idioms and proverbs express perfectly the whole experience of life, society and history of the laborers. However, one of the most typical topic that literature has mentioned is that the topic of the women. The image of the women is reflected variously and plentifully through idioms and proverbs. In some proverbs and idioms, women are described with a proud look and a noble beautiful feeling as .
