MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY HUỲNH LỆ MY CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS RELATING TO LOVE AND DESIRE FOR LIFE Field: English Linguistics Code: 8. Phan Văn Hòa BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN HUỲNH LỆ MY ẨN DỤ Ý NIỆM TRONG CÁC YẾU TỐ THÀNH NGỮ TIẾNG VIỆT VÀ TIẾNG ANH LIÊN QUAN ĐẾN TÌNH YÊU VÀ KHÁT VỌNG SỐNG Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số: 8.01 Người hướng dẫn: PGS. Phan Văn Hòa i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP There are no materials published anywhere. Of course, this study doesn’t get any materials extracted in the whole, or in part from a thesis by which it has qualified for or been awarded another degree or diploma except where reference is made in the thesis.
No other person’s work has been used without any acknowledgement in the thesis. The thesis has not been submitted for the award of any degree or diploma in any other tertiary institutions. Binh Dinh, 2020 Huỳnh Lệ My ii ACKNOWLEDGMENT First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest and most sincere thanks to my supervisor, Assoc. Phan Van Hoa, who always instructs me with patience and enthusiasm.
My thesis would not have been finished without his enormous help. This work has been fulfilled with his giant and meaningful guidance. I also would like to show my deep gratefulness to all of the lecturers of Foreign Languages Department of Quy Nhon University. Especially, the lecturers are the pioneers in introducing the classic essential theory on conceptual metaphor and translation for my thesis.
I would like also express my best feelings to the lecturers from other universities for their great teaching. Finally, I would love to emphasize my appreciation to my family who is always on my side to support me and my best friend Le Thi Trinh Nu, who has encouraged me with patience. Binh Dinh, 2020 ` Signature Huynh Le My iii ABSTRACT This study has been conducted with my tremendous attempt to investigating conceptual metaphors expressing to Vietnamese and English idioms relating to love and desire for life. Many idioms have been collected with a large number.
The chosen idioms are popular with both Vietnamese and English people. The theory of cognitive linguistics raised by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) and Kövecses (2002)are considered as the main theories in this study. There are 200 samples concluding Vietnamese and English idioms used with the total of 30 conceptual metaphors. By applying with various methods comprising quantitative, qualitative, descriptive and contrastive approaches, the study achieved the important aims and objectives.
The result points out those kinds of metaphors used with the different purposes in English and Vietnamese idioms. Keywords: Conceptual Metaphors, Vietnamese and English Idioms, Love, Desire for Life iv TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. x LIST OF TABLES.
AIM AND OBJECTIVES. SCOPE OF THE STUDY. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY.
LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND. Conceptual Metaphorical Mappings. The Idioms in English and Vietnamese. The differences and similarities between idioms and proverbs.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION. CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS RELATING TO LOVE. Love is a journey.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is an object. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is fire. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Love is a unity. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is heaven.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is a container. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is parts of body. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Love is vegetation. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is an unstable state.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is a game. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is a valuable commodity. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Love is flavour. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is a colour.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is an animal. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is food. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Love is a choice. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is life.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is foolishness. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Love is a rope. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Love is a natural force. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS RELATING TO DESIRE FOR LIFE.
Desire for Life is an object. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is an animal.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is a container. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is a valuable commodity. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Desire for Life is vegetation. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is fire.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is a unity. In English Idioms.
In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is heaven. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms.
Desire for Life is human beings. In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. Desire for Life is a game.
In English Idioms. In Vietnamese Idioms. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS. LIMITATIONS AND SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH.
75 APPENDICESI x ABBREVIATIONS MIP : metaphor identification procedure SD : source domain TD : target domain xi LIST OF TABLES Table 2. The metaphorical correspondences between Source 12 Domain and Target Domain. Metaphorical Mapping between Conceptual Domains. Conceptual metaphorical mapping of the source domain 32 ―Heaven‖ and the target domain ―Love‖.
The occurrence and percentage of conceptual metaphors 53 denoting love in Vietnamese and English idioms. The occurrence and percentage of conceptual metaphors 68 denoting desire for life in Vietnamese and English idioms. RATIONALE From past to present, the topic of love and desire for life is always associated with people and is very popular. Indeed, people from birth to adulthood carry a burning love that can be family love, the country love, especially love between men and women, and the desire for life.
The special thing is that love and the desire for life are two things that go hand in hand in human life, and they are the most important things that help people succeed and develop more in life. For example, if people do not like their work, the productivity will not be high, leading to them being unsuccessful at their work, or musicians without faith in love will not be able to make immortal music. It is also possible that, in some cases, people without the desire for life cannot develop themselves. Thus, many idioms relating to love and desire for life was born to motivate people, especially they are used in literature to educate students.
Also, the idioms usually contain conceptual metaphors which are difficult to understand deeply. Although love and the desire for life in idioms are very familiar, the concepts of love and desire for life are two abstract concepts, so it is difficult to express them to make the listeners understand the whole of the speakers' deep implications and. This can be easily seen in life, we can see some examples below. To express the meaning of ―I love you‖, some people say directly ―I love you‖ while others use familiar images in life to describe it ―My heart has turned on the green light, but why do you keep pushing the brakes like this‖.
―The heart turns green light‖ refers to the speaker who has loved the listener. For the same idea, some people choose to speak frankly but others choose to use some pictures to illustrate their sentences more vividly, perspicuously, and deeply. Such usage is called a conceptual metaphor. 2 Metaphor is popularly used in literature and everyday language.
Besides, it is commonly used in idioms, especially idioms about love and the desire for life. Vietnamese and English idioms contain a lot of conceptual metaphors; however, due to differences in culture, lifestyle, and thinking, some idioms have the same meaning but different languages will also differ in the types of metaphors in those idioms. Let us take a look at the following idioms to see their metaphorical forms: (1) Jules and Nora are a match made in heaven. They love doing things together and cannot bear to be away from each other.
(2) Ai nói chi chàng chớ có nghe, ông tơ bà nguyệt đã xe ta rồi. (3) Their marriage was on the rocks as they couldn't get along with each other anymore and were having huge arguments very frequently. (4) Cơm chả lành, canh chả ngọt. (5) Có công mài sắt có ngày nên kim.
All the idioms in the above examples contain common conceptual metaphors. For example, in the first example ―Match made in heaven‖, the idiom borrows the image of heaven to say that a couple is very compatible in all aspects of love. The target domain here is LOVE and the Source domain is HEAVEN. In example (2), people also use the HEAVEN metaphor to express the meaning of the target domain LOVE.
The special thing is that these idioms contain the same kinds of metaphor, but they are two different objects, ―ông tơ bà nguyệt‖ only exists in Vietnamese culture, and ―heaven‖ exists in both cultures. In the two idioms ―on the rocks‖ and ―cơm chả lành canh chả ngọt‖, although the same meaning is the quarrels or conflicts of couples in love, the two idioms contain two different types of conceptual metaphors, the metaphor of object and the metaphor of flavour respectively. Example (5) is also in the form of the metaphor of object, ―KIM‖ AND ―SẮT‖ are two source domains used to conceptualize the target domain ―DESIRE FOR LIFE‖. In summary, how love and desire of life are conceptualized in English and Vietnamese idioms, what the similarities and differences of metaphors of love and desire for life in the idioms are have inspired me to conduct a research entitled: 3 ―Conceptual Metaphors in English and Vietnamese Idiomatic Expressions Relating to Love and Desire for Life‖.
Hopefully, this study will contribute to the comprehending of conceptual metaphors in the Vietnamese and English idioms relating to love and desire for life. AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. Aim This research aims at identifying clearly the idioms relating to love and desire for life, and finding out the similarities and differences about conceptual metaphors in English and Vietnamese idioms involved. Objectives In order to achieve the aim of this research, the thesis concentrates on: - Identifying specifically the conceptual metaphors of love and desire for life in English and Vietnamese.
- Describing how the concept of love and desire for life is metaphorically expressed in English and Vietnamese idioms. - Comparing the conceptual metaphor of love and desire for life between English and Vietnamese idioms. RESEARCH QUESTIONS In order to fulfil the objective above, the analysis will answer these research questions: 1. How are the conceptual metaphors of love and desire for life expressed in English and Vietnamese idioms? 4 2.
What are the similarities and differences of the conceptual metaphors of love and desire for life between English and Vietnamese idioms? 1. SCOPE OF THE STUDY The study mainly focuses on the conceptual metaphors of love and desire for life in the English and Vietnamese idioms.