A study of idioms containing terms for plants in english And vietnamese

Abstract

Idioms in general and idioms containing TsFPs in particular are of culture-specific nature and vary from culture to culture. On this basis, the thesis investigates the similarities and differences of idioms containing TsFPs in English and Vietnamese especially in terms of syntactic and semantic features, based on descriptive and contrastive methods. 400 samples in English and Vietnamese were taken from different sources such as novels, short stories, dictionaries, the Internet… for the sake of the syntactic and semantic analysis. The thesis also suggests some implications for the teaching and learning of idioms in general, and those for the translating of idioms containing TsFPs from English into Vietnamese and vice versa in particular.