The study on the words related to body parts has been an interesting topic for research in linguistics. This is also the case in Vietnamese language. The case is even becoming more interesting when we compare two languages with different cultures. In this paper, we analyze the words related to body parts in Vietnamese and in English. The words analyzed are the words “đầu” and “chân” in Vietnamese and their English equivalents “head” and “foot/leg”, respectively. The analysis started from the point of view of culturology language that relates the words with the cultural phenomenon. Particularly, the analysis focuses on the transfer meanings shown in the metaphors and metonymys. The discussion is concluded with the calculation on the statistical relations between the words “đầu” and “chân” in Vietnamese and the words “head” and “foot/leg” in English based on the corpora available in the Sketch Engine. The results show that the relation between body parts in Vietnamese is closer that the relation between the body parts in English.
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Culturology Language, Corpus Linguistics, Vietnamese, English
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abstract = {The study on the words related to body parts has been an interesting topic for research in linguistics. This is also the case in Vietnamese language. The case is even becoming more interesting when we compare two languages with different cultures. In this paper, we analyze the words related to body parts in Vietnamese and in English. The words analyzed are the words “đầu” and “chân” in Vietnamese and their English equivalents “head” and “foot/leg”, respectively. The analysis started from the point of view of culturology language that relates the words with the cultural phenomenon. Particularly, the analysis focuses on the transfer meanings shown in the metaphors and metonymys. The discussion is concluded with the calculation on the statistical relations between the words “đầu” and “chân” in Vietnamese and the words “head” and “foot/leg” in English based on the corpora available in the Sketch Engine. The results show that the relation between body parts in Vietnamese is closer that the relation between the body parts in English.},
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