Báo Cáo Field of word meal in English and words relating to it (in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents)

TOPIC
FIELD OF WORD "MEAL" IN ENGLISH AND WORDS RELATING TO IT (IN CONTRAST WITH VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS)​
INTRODUCTION


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”.


We write this graduation paper is not out of the aims to:
_ Help learners / readers understand about field of word “meal”.
_ Help learners / readers understand about the culture and linguist of the word “meal” in English and its Vietnamese equivalents “tªn c¸c bưa ¨n”, “®å uèng”, “dông cô ¨n uèng”, “n¬i ¨n uèng”, “nghi thøc”
_ Compare the cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal” and words relating to it in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents

Because of space and time, the graduation paper cannot cover the whole cultural meaning of the word “meal” in English as well as in Vietnamese equivalents. Thus, we only focus on researching some aspects as follows:
_ Definitions of word and meaning.
_ Some information about lexical and semantic field of word, lexical meaning, cultural meaning.
_ Cultural and linguistic analysis in English word “meal and its Vietnamese equivalents: “tªn c¸c bưa ¨n”, “®å uèng”, “dông cô ¨n uèng”, “n¬i ¨n uèng”, “nghi thøc”.
_ Comparison between the cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal” and words relating to it in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents.


To complete this study, we base on some methods as follow:
_ Definiting word and meaning .
_ Introducing lexical and semantic field of word.
_ Analyzing the culture and linguist of the word “meal” in English and in Vietnamese equivalents.
_ Comparing the cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal” and words relating to it in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents.

The graduation paper is divided into 3 parts:

Part A Introduction


Part B Investigation
Chapter I Theoretical background
- Definition of word and meaning
- Lexical meaning
- Cultural meaning
- Lexical and semantic field of words
Chapter II Field of word “meal” in English and words relating to it (in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents)
- Definition of word “meal”
- Field of word “meal” in English and in Vietnamese equivalents
- Cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal”
Chapter III Cultural and linguistic analysis of Vietnamese equivalents relating to the English word “meal”
Chapter IV Comparison of the English word “meal” and words relating to it (in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents)


Part C: Conclusion