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.