Keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nra; v\u00e0o; conceptualization; orientational metaphor; container metaphor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis study investigates the semantic change of the two words denoting spatial orientations RA and V\u00c0O in Vietnamese, in contrast to their translation equivalents in English. Originally expressing spatial meanings, these words have gradually been used to represent abstract concepts. This fact results from the semantic change involving orientational metaphors and container metaphors. The bilingual Vietnamese-English data used in this study were mainly extracted from the collection \u201cT\u00ecnh y\u00eau sau chi\u1ebfn tranh: Tuy\u1ec3n t\u1eadp truy\u1ec7n ng\u1eafn Vi\u1ec7t Nam \u0111\u01b0\u01a1ng \u0111\u1ea1i<\/em>\u201d, including short stories by 45 Vietnamese writers, and the English translation \u201cLove after war: contemporary fiction from Viet Nam<\/em>,\u201d translated by 19 Vietnamese and American translators. In addition, this study also used data extracted from Vietlex Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The results show that non-spatial meanings of RA and V\u00c0O are systematically derived from spatial experiences of Vietnamese native speakers, and four clusters of non-spatial meanings have been identified: (1) getting into and out of a situation; (2) appearance and disappearance; (3) knowing; (4) support and exclusion. These extended conceptualizations are clearly reflected in both Vietnamese and English languages. However, the process of encoding non-spatial concepts varies across linguistic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCopyright<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u00a9 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open Access<\/strong> This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC licensehttps:\/\/www.atlantis-press.com\/proceedings\/asiacall-2-21\/125967424?fbclid=IwAR1BJfHREi0AUp2EqhnCd_p6tFRnvBgPzZ3iv0pHIw1f4mAVPXrh7FjMYSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Semantic Change of RA and V\u00c0O in Vietnamese in Contrast to Their Equivalents in English Authors Duong Tran Van1, * 1Department of English\/American Language and Culture, Hoa Sen University, Viet Nam *Corresponding author. Email: duong.tranvan@hoasen.ntc33.net Corresponding Author Duong Tran Van Available Online 24 December 2021. DOI https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2991\/assehr.k.211224.034How to use a DOI? Keywords ra; v\u00e0o; conceptualization; orientational metaphor; container metaphor Abstract This study investigates the semantic change of the two words denoting spatial orientations RA and V\u00c0O in Vietnamese, in contrast to their translation equivalents in English. Originally expressing spatial meanings, these words have gradually been used to represent abstract concepts. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,151],"tags":[773,826],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntc33.net\/nn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}