A study on english and vietnamese idioms relating to spiritual life

Abstract

This study is a contrastive analysis of English and Vietnamese idioms relating to spiritual life. However, we are not going to concentrate on all idioms relating to spiritual life. We just focus on idioms containing elements of spiritual life. In other words, the analysis is carried out to find out similarities and differences in syntax, semantic, and some cultural features of idioms containing spiritual words in English as well as in Vietnamese. The thesis also suggests some implications for the teaching and learning of idioms in general, and those for the translating of idioms containing spiritual words from English into Vietnamese and vise versa in particular.