SOME IMTERESTING NOTES ON THE SPATIAL ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The real world is basically the same but the way people perceive it differently in different countries. This is clearly reflected in human language which is not coincided between nations.  However,  the  peculiarities  of  thought  and  language  are  not  sufficiently  presented  in dictionaries.  That  is  why,  it  is  necessary  for  us  to  study  on  this  problem  to  get  profound understanding of semantics of words. The group of words concentrated on in this paper are spatial adjectives with vertical length such as  high, tall, deep, thick    in English and  cao, sâu dày  in Vietnamese. Since English and Vietnamese people structure the world in a different way so when learning English, Vietnamese learners are easily confused when using these spatial adjectives.  ue to the framewor  of the paper and the sense of the magazine “  anguage and  ife”, the writer  only  focuses  on  several  typical  but  interesting  examples  concerning  the  different cognition about the real world. The other aspects in the domain of high learning and academic knowledge are not analyzed in details so that readers can catch the idea of the writing without any difficulty.