This article presents a socio-cultural research on the conceptual metaphors (CMs) of Time in English versus Vietnamese lyric songs. Basing on the data collected from the questionnaire and interviews and the theoretical background of many linguistics, especially Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Kovecses (2010) the study investigates and discovers the similarities and differences in CMs of Time between English and Vietnamese songs from the late decades of the 20th century to present. |
