UNDERSTANDING VIETNAMESE PROVERBS AND IDIOMS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MOVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT RULE

Abstract

All things and phenomena are moving and developing, and as a means of human communication, language is not an exception. Proverbs and idioms also change, but due to certain stability, their lexical components change more slowly than other popular vocabulary. Thus, idioms and proverbs can preserve ancient words, or may merely preserve ancient
meaning(s) or ancient sounds of popular vocabulary. On the other hand, idioms and proverbs reflect the natural and social environment of the period in which they appeared. For many reasons, the natural and social environment in which we are living is rapidly changing day by day. Proverbs and idioms may be considered a mini social and natural museum of each ethnic group. From the perspective of movement and development rule, the article explores and analyzes a number of Vietnamese idioms and proverbs, which can clearly reveal the change of
environment and the change of language.