VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES
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BÙI THỊ NGỌC
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE POLYSEMY OF ‘OPEN/CLOSE’
IN ENGLISH AND ‘MỞ/ĐÓNG’ IN VIETNAMESE
(FROM THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE)

(NGHIÊN CỨU TÍNH ĐA NGHĨA CỦA ĐỘNG TỪ ‘MỞ/ĐÓNG’
TRONG TIẾNG ANH VÀ TIẾNG VIỆT NHÌN TỪ GÓC ĐỘ
NGỮ NGHĨA HỌC TRI NHẬN) M.A. Minor Thesis Field: English Linguistics


M.A. Minor Thesis Field: English Linguistics
Code: 60 22 15
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trần Hữu Mạnh

Hanoi, 2010 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART A: INTRODUCTION 1
1. RATIONALE OF THE STUDY 1
2. SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1
3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1
4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS 2
5. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY 2
PART B: DEVELOPMENT 4
CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 5
1.1. AN OVERVIEW ON CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS 5
2.2. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF VERBS 7

3.1.1.2.2. Non-prototypical extended meanings of the verb ‘close’ 24
3.1.1.3. Summary 25
3.1.2. Encyclopaedic knowledge and meanings of ‘open/close’ 26
3.1.3. Radial category of ‘open/close’ 29
3.2. THE ENGLISH VERBS ‘OPEN/CLOSE’ AND THEIR VIETNAMESE
EQUIVALENTS 30
3.2.1. ‘Open/close’ in English corresponds to ‘mở/đóng’ in Vietnamese 31
3.2.1.1. ‘Open’ in English corresponds to ‘mở’ in Vietnamese 31
3.2.1.2. ‘Close’ in English corresponds to ‘đóng’ in Vietnamese 32
3.2.2. Some other Vietnamese equivalents of the English verbs ‘open/close’ 33
3.2.2.1. Some other Vietnamese equivalents of the English verb ‘open’ 33
3.2.2.1. Some other Vietnamese equivalents of the English verb ‘close’ 35
3.3. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERNENCES BETWEEN ‘OPEN/CLOSE’ IN ENGLISH
AND ‘MỞ /ĐÓNG’ IN VIETNAMESE 37
3.3.1. Similarities 37
3.3.2. Differences 39
3.4. SUMMARY 39
PART C: CONCLUSION 41 6
1. CONCLUSIONS 41
2. IMPLICATIONS 42
3. LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER
STUDY 43
REFERENCES 44


which these different languages convey such meanings can be different.
Accordingly, our findings are supposed to be worthwhile to those who are interested in the
field of cognitive semantics in general and polysemy in particular.

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