Grammatical and semantic features of some English words and idioms denoting happiness - the feeling of great pleasure

Authors: Nguyen, Thi Van Lam

This article is intended for the discussion of the lexemes denoting the feeling of great pleasure sub-classified into four groups of adjectives (‘delighted’, ‘elated’, and ‘jubilant’); nouns (‘bliss’, ‘ecstasy’, ‘euphoria’, ‘glee’, ‘joy’, and ‘rapture’); verbs (‘exult’ and ‘rejoice’); and idioms (‘walk on air’, ‘in seventh heaven’, ‘on cloud nine’, ‘on top of the world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘thrilled to bits’). They are dealt with in respect of their grammatical features including the syntactic functions and morphology, and their semantic structures including lexical meaning, synonyms, collocational range, words and idioms of which the word denoting the feeling is a constituent. Some suggestions in the teaching and learning of as well as in the translation concerned with the lexemes are finally provided...

Title:	Grammatical and semantic features of some English words and idioms denoting happiness - the feeling of great pleasure
Other Titles:	Đặc điểm ngữ pháp và ngữ nghĩa của một số từ và thành ngữ tiếng Anh chỉ hạnh phúc -cảm giác rất hạnh phúc
Authors:	Nguyen, Thi Van Lam
Keywords:	Tiếng Anh;Ngữ pháp;Ngữ nghĩa;Các từ chỉ cảm giác hạnh phúc
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	H. : ĐHQGHN
Series/Report no.:	Vol 25;No 3

Description:	p. 165-173
URI:	http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/57733
ISSN:	2525-2445
Appears in Collections:	Foreign Studies