MOVEMENT TERMS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE CONCEPTUALLY METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE

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  • Ho Trinh Quynh Thu*

Keywords:

metaphor
conceptual metaphor
metaphorical expressions
movement terms
English
Vietnamese

Abstract

Movement has a tremendous impact on human actions and thoughts because it is closely attached to our daily activities. As a result, terms of movement play an important role in expressing changes in both physical and emotional worlds, including love.
Love becomes more vivid and diversified thanks to the terms of movement, which is a result of our investigation under the light of the conceptual metaphor theory raised by Lakoff and Johnson. Examining more than 700 terms of movement in metaphorical expressions of love extracting from 254 English poems and the same number of Vietnamese ones, we have found out that all the key conceptual metaphors of love are similar between English and Vietnamese. Interestingly, a lot of linguistic metaphors are also the same in the two languages. These resemblances may be put in plain words by the universality of metaphor. However, coming from two different cultures, some terms of movement in metaphorical expressions of love are found different between English and Vietnamese.

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Jun 30, 2016
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Ho Trinh Quynh Thu*. “MOVEMENT TERMS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE CONCEPTUALLY METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE”. The University of Danang - Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 103, June 2016, pp. 106-9, https://jst-ud.vn/jst-ud/article/view/573.

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