The Semantic Change of RA and VÀO in Vietnamese in Contrast to Their Equivalents in English

Authors

Duong Tran Van^, 

¹Department of English/American Language and Culture, Hoa Sen University, Viet Nam

^*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Corresponding Author

Duong Tran Van

Available Online 24 December 2021.

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Keywords

ra; vào; conceptualization; orientational metaphor; container metaphor

Abstract

This study investigates the semantic change of the two words denoting spatial orientations RA and VÀO 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 “Tình yêu sau chiến tranh: Tuyển tập truyện ngắn Việt Nam đương đại”, including short stories by 45 Vietnamese writers, and the English translation “Love after war: contemporary fiction from Viet Nam,” 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 VÀO 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.

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