An investigation into english And vietnamese idioms containing words denoting weather

Abstract

Idioms are units of language full of problems, especially to second language learners. Therefore, the thesis makes an effort to deal with a small part of idioms: the syntactic and semantic features of English and Vietnamese idioms containing words denoting weather. Along with the investigation is the qualitative and quantitative analysis in English and Vietnamese idioms collected from reliable novels, short stories, dictionaries, newspapers and websites. The key target the investigation wants to reach is to discover the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms containing words denoting weather in terms of syntax and semantics by means of contrastive analysis. A long with this discovery, the national features of the two peoples who speak English and Vietnamese are revealed. The study also puts forward some suggestions for teaching and learning the investigated idioms.