Information about the thesis "Semantic Survey of Modern Idioms and Phrases, and Their Symbolic Values" by graduate student Nguyen Thi Nguyet Minh, majoring in Linguistics.1. Student's Full Name: Nguyen Thi Nguyet Minh 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of Birth: April 22, 1986 4. Place of Birth: Bac Giang City 5. Decision No. 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 24, 2008, issued by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: A Semantic Survey of Modern Idioms and Phrases, and Their Symbolic Values 8. Major: Linguistics Code: 602201 9. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Le Quang Thiem, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. 10. Summary of the thesis results: The thesis "Survey of the semantics of modern idioms and idiomatic expressions and their symbolic values" synthesizes the views of Vietnamese linguists on modern idioms and idiomatic expressions and presents its own classification. These include idioms and idiomatic expressions with symmetrical structures, idioms and idiomatic expressions with comparative structures, idioms and idiomatic expressions with phrase structures, and idioms and idiomatic expressions with sentence structures. In addition, the thesis also presents some actual semantic ranges of modern idioms and idiomatic expressions and their symbolic values. Accordingly, idioms and idiomatic expressions in the 20th and early 21st centuries clearly reflect the changes in the lives of Vietnamese people at that time. These included the hardships and difficulties of life, the struggle to defend the homeland, and the negative aspects of society. It can be said that modern idioms, colloquialisms, and their symbolic values represent a new direction that deserves more attention from Vietnamese linguists. 11. Practical application: The research results of this thesis will also be helpful in compiling modern idioms and colloquialisms. 12. Further research directions: None. 13. Published works related to the thesis: Graduation thesis: Survey of Vietnamese idioms from 1945 to the present, published in June 2009.
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: NGUYEN THI NGUYET MINH 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: April 22, 1986 4. Palace of birth: Bac Giang 5.Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QD- XHNV- KH&SDH Dated October 24, 2008. 6. Changes in academic process: None 7. Official thesis title: Investigation about semantic expressions, locutions in modern time and their symbolic values 8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 602201 10.Supervisors: Prof. Dr Le Quang Thiem - University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Vietnam National University Hanoi 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: The thesis “Investigation about semantic expressions, locutions in modern time and their symbolic values” has summed up the opinions of Vietnamese linguisticians about expressions and locutions in modern time. From there, the thesis has created their own classification systems: expressions and locutions with symmetrical structure, expressions and locutions with comparative structure, expressions and locutions with clause structure, expressions and locutions with sentence structure. Besides this, the thesis also emphasizes some semantic aspects of expressions and locutions in modern time and their symbolic values. We can see that expressions and locutions in modern time have expressed the changes of Vietnam's society: Vietnamese's difficult life, the fight for national defense and their negative issues in society. Brief, studying about expressions and locutions in modern times and their symbolic values is a new trend. Therefore, Vietnamese linguisticians need to research more about this interesting problem. 12. Practical applicability: The thesis's results are useful for editing Vietnamese expressions and locutions in modern time 13. Further research directions: None 14. Thesis-related publications: Investigation of Vietnamese expressions since 1945
