Prepositions Running head: prepositions
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Locative prepositionsIn English, space prepositions state the location of an object without paying attention to the position of the speakers. For example, English people often say: “the plane is “in” the sky, the child is playing “in” the kitchen, cars run “in” the street”. (McCarty, Pérez, Torres-Guzman, To, & Watahomigie, 2004, p. 150). On the contrary, in Vietnamese, people tend to consider the position of the speakers. They say: máy bay ở trên trời (the plane is above him or her), đứa trẻ đang chơi trong nhà bếp (the child is inside the kitchen), những chiếc xe hơi chạy ngoài đường (cars are outside). Therefore, preposition in can be translated three ways into Vietnamese with three different meanings: trên, trong, ngoài. In addition, Tran (2010) mentioned several differences between English and Vietnamese prepositions in terms of semantics and pragmatics. First, when describing the higher position, they take the contact meaning between trajector (đối tượng định vị) and landmark (đối tượng qui chiếu) into consideration.For example, they distinguish the meaning of on, above and over. Meanwhile, Vietnamese people almost do not pay attention to this aspect. They just use the only word trên. Second, when talking about the relation between above (trên) and under (dưới), English people are always aware of whether or not trajector (đối tượng định vị) is in the vertical reference (vùng quy chiếu thẳng đứng) of the landmark’s (đối tượng qui chiếu) area. That is the reason why they have these words: above / over / on and under / below / beneath. In contrast, Vietnamese people only devide the space into two part “above/under” (trên/dưới).To indicate the middle position, English has in the middle of / between (for 2 objects) and among (for 3 objects and more) while Vietnamese use the word giữa for all these cases. Examples of this kind are summarized in the table below.
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