METAPHORS OF SADNESS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE POEMS

Abstract

This study focuses on the target  domain SADNESS in English and Vietnamese modern  poems,  in  order  to  analyze  and  compare  the  cultural  values  such  as  attitude  and belief  which  play  the  role  as  the  basement  for  the  choice  of  source  domain  in  linguistic metaphors  in  two  languages.  It  has  discovered  several  interesting  conceptual  metaphors: SADNESS IS A PAIN/WOUND, SADNESS IS A FLUID. It also give s  some implications in translating English into Vietnamese and vice versa.