Thesis of Doctor of Philosophy: A study on structural and semantic components of typical English and Vietnamese idioms

The study is expected to reach the following objectives: To study how idioms are organized structurally and semantically in English and Vietnamese; to establish the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms in terms of structural and semantic components; to provide main factors lying behind the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms. | VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES . οOο. ĐẶNG NGUYÊN GIANG A STUDY ON STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC COMPONENTS OF TYPICAL ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS Nghiên cứu thành tố cấu trúc và ngữ nghĩa của một số thành ngữ cố định đặc ngữ điển hình trong tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt Major English Linguistics Code 62 22 15 01 A Thesis Submitted in Total Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy HANOI 2013 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES . οOο. ĐẶNG NGUYÊN GIANG A STUDY ON STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC COMPONENTS OF TYPICAL ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS Nghiên cứu thành tố cấu trúc và ngữ nghĩa của một số thành ngữ cố định đặc ngữ điển hình trong tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt Major English Linguistics Code 62 22 15 01 A Thesis Submitted in Total Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Supervisors Assoc. Prof. Dr. Võ Đại Quang Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lê Hùng Tiến HANOI 2013 DECLARATION BY AUTHOR Except where reference has been made in the text this thesis contains no material previously published or written by another person. I Đặng Nguyên Giang hereby state that this thesis is the result of my own research and the substance of the thesis has not wholly or in part been submitted for any degrees to any other universities or institutions. i PUBLISHED WORKS BY THE AUTHOR RELEVANT TO THE THESIS Giang Đ. N. 2009 . Idiomatic Variants and Synonymous Idioms in English. VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 25 2 81-85. Giang Đ. N. 2011 . Idiom Variants and Synonymous Idioms in English and Vietnamese The Similarities and Differences. VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 27 4 273-280. Giang Đ. N. 2011 . Bàn thêm về đặc tính ngữ nghĩa của thành ngữ tiếng Anh On the semantic properties of English idioms . Bản tin thông tin khoa học và công nghệ - Trường Đại học Tây Bắc 1-6 27-33. .