TRANSFERING THE MEANING OF THE VIETNAMESE WORDS "MÌNH", "THÂN" INTO ENGLISH EQUIVALENT
Nguyễn Văn Hải
Abstract
Transfering of meaning of word "body" in Vietnamese into equivalent words in English shown on the different dimensions: identity, translat ing, text content. According to our survey, words “mình” and “thân” in Vietnamese are used in rich and meaningful way. In terms of identity, there are a larget number of words having the same meaning likes "mình" and "thân" in Vietnamese (9 different corresponding words, in English there is only one "body").