A study on linguistic features of expressions denoting love for nature in english and vietnamese songs

Abstract

This thesis examines the semantic and syntactic features of expressions denoting love for nature between English and Vietnamese songs. The data were collected from two hundred famous English and Vietnamese songs on the internet. The data was described and analyzed on linguistic features under qualitative and quantitative approaches. This paper aims is to describe and discover the similarities and differences the love for nature in English and Vietnamese song in terms of syntactic and semantic features.Through the study, the study, the syntactic features of NPs, VPs, AdjPs and PPs denoting love for nature were found between English and Vietnamese. Besides, this study also presents the semantics features of expreesions denoting love love “forest”, “mountain”, “tree”, “animal”, “river” and “ocean” in both languages.