Luận Văn Cultural and linguistic analysis of vietnamese equivalents relating to the english word meal

Cultural and linguistic analysis of vietnamese equivalents relating to the english word “meal”


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[TD="width: 90%"]TABLE OF CONTENTS​ACKOWLEDGEMENTS
PART A INTRODUCTION

1​1. Rationale
1​2. Aims of the study
1​3. Scope of the study
2
4. Method of study
2
5. Design of the study
3​PART B: INVESTIGATION

4​CHAPTER I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
4​1. What is the word?
4​2. What is the meaning?
6​3. Lexical meaning
7​4. Cultural meaning
9​5. Lexical and semantic field of words

10​CHAPTER II CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH WORD “MEAL”
12​1. Definition
12​2. Field of word “meal” in English and words relating to it (in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents)
13​3. Cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal”
15​3.1. Name of meals
15​3.1.1. Breakfast
16​3.1.2. Lunch
17​3.1.3. Tea time
18​3.1.3.1. High tea
18​3.1.3.2. Afternoon tea
18​3.1.4. Dinner
19​3.1.5. Supper
19​3.1.6. Parts of meal
19​3.2. Drinks
20​3.2.1. Tea
20​3.2.2. Alcohol/wine
21​3.2.3. Other drinks
22​3.3. Table ware
23​3.4. Out-door eating
23​3.4.1. Restaurants
23​3.4.2. Pubs and bars
24​3.4.3. Take away/fast food outlet
25​3.5. Etiquette of eating
25​3.6. Summary

27​CHAPTER III CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS RELATING TO THE ENGLISH WORD “MEAL”
28​1. Name of meals
28​1.1. Breakfast
28​1.2. Lunch
29​1.3. Dinner
30​1.4. Parts of meal
30​2. Drinks
32​2.1. Tea
33​2.2. Alcohol
34​2.3. Other drinks
35​3. Eating means
36​3.1. Chopsticks
36​3.2. Food tray
38​4. Eating places
40​4.1. In-door eating
40​4.1.1. In the kitchen
40​4.1.2. In the living room
41​4.1.3. On the veranda
42​4.2. Out-door eating
42​4.2.1. Restaurants
42​4.2.2. Streets
43​4.2.3. Markets
44​4.2.4. Pubs and bars
45​5. Etiquette of eating
45​6. Summary

50​CHAPTER IV COMPARISON OF THE ENGLISH WORD “MEAL” AND WORDS RELATING TO IT (IN CONTRAST WITH VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS)
51​1. Similarities
51​2. Differences
52​3. Summary

55​PART C CONCLUSION
56​REFERENCES
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INTRODUCTION​1. Rationale
People’s life is changing day by day. Exchange and learning each other are essential culture demand of human beings. One of the methods to satisfy this demand is studying foreign language. There are thousands of different languages to chose, but holding the top list is English. As it appears every corner all over the world and people adapt it as their first or second language. Thanks to English the space between people and countries become shorter and shorter.
Finding the importance of English most people nowadays learn English. However, few of them deeply understand this language as well as its cultural characteristics through meaning of word(s). As they do not realize that behind a word there are many things to discuss. So, sometimes they are surprised by the diversity in the meaning of the word in communication.
As Vietnamese students who are learning English, we would like to research English culture in the light of linguistic view of word “meal” and its contrast with Vietnamese equivalents. Actually, we chose this word as we think that behind the word there must be many interesting things, especially cultural field. Moreover, people say that to understand culture of a country s/he should look into eating and drinking style of that country because they themselves reflect cultural elements.
We hope that after the graduation paper in print, it will help learners as well as readers understand more clearly about English and Vietnamese culture through the word “meal”.

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