Hieu Thi Minh Ngo

A Contrastive Pragmatic Analysis of Context-Dependent Meanings in English and Vietnamese Proverbs

Proverbs are often treated as fixed carriers of folk wisdom, yet their meanings in discourse are neither fully stable nor self-contained. This article investigates the context-dependent meanings of English and Vietnamese proverbs from a contrastive pragmatic perspective. Drawing on scholarship in paremiology, pragmatic...