Comparative Images in Vietnamese Perception Through Idioms With Comparisons

Bibliographic Data

ID21807472
AuthorsDang Nguyen Giang (Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume13
Issue9
Pages2179-2185
Publication date2023-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory and Practice in Language Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1799-2591 • E-ISSN: 2053-0692
PublisherAcademy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17507/tpls.1309.03
OpenAlexW4386397221
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

Idioms are considered special linguistic units that represent national cultures and views (Giang, 2023). Idioms with comparisons are a type of idioms commonly used in Vietnamese communications. Comparative images of these idioms derive from their component parts implicitly containing typical cultural characteristics and unique perception of Vietnamese people. This paper is concerned with comparative images in Vietnamese perception through idioms with comparisons from a cultural perspective. A hand search of Vietnamese idiom dictionaries helped to establish a corpus of 731 idioms with comparisons, from which comparative image groups were identified. It was found that comparative images of Vietnamese idioms with comparisons come from humans, animals, objects and materials, natural phenomena, food, and plants. The diversity of comparative images of idioms with comparisons is a mirror that reflects not only the geographical and natural characteristics of Vietnam but also Vietnamese people’s rich material and spiritual lives

Comparative method · Cultural diversity · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Perception · Sociology · Vietnamese · Anthropology · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Evaluation Methods in Various Fields · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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