INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name: Huang shaohua (Hoàng Thiều Hoa) 2. Sex: Male 3. Date of birth: Apr 20, 1982 4. Place of birth: Guang Xi, China 5. Admission decision number: 1415/2008/QĐ-XHNV-KH&SĐH. Dated: 13/11/2008 6. Changes in academic process: None 7. Official thesis title: Understanding Pure Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese in Vietnamese idioms 8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 60.22.01 10. Supervisors: Prof.Dr Nguyễn Văn Chính 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: (Summarize them with stress on the new findings, if any) Through the theme “Understanding Pure Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese in Vietnamese idioms” we discover many research issues which are meaningful in science, useful and intriguing. 1. The thesis starts from understanding the reasoning bases concerning the theme, and then goes further to research the situations of using, artistic structure and content value in the two kinds of Vietnamese idioms Vietnamese idioms and pure Vietnamese elements. That trend helps us understand well the origin, structure of Vietnamese idioms, offering correct judgment about the function, role, and operational mechanism of each component in idiomatic sub-categories that they are involved in. 2. The stock of Vietnamese idioms include pure Vietnamese idioms, idioms with Sino-Vietnamese elements and a very few of idioms being influenced of other languages n which pure Vietnamese idioms account for a large quantity. 3. Idioms with Sino-Vietnamese elements include borrowing idioms of Sino-Vietnamese original sound form and idioms with Sino-Vietnamese elements which are Vietnamized. Sino-Vietnamese elements are Vietnamized in many different forms such as: Interpreting directly the meaning of Sino-Vietnamese idioms; adding or removing some words and expressions into Sino-Vietnamese structures so that they become more easily to understand, easy to use with Vietnamese habits and thoughts; changing the words and meaning or Sino-Vietnamese idiomatic structures to create flexibility and versatility when entering the stock of Vietnamese idioms; Sinoizing Sino-Vietnamese idioms with simple daily words and expressions … In general, the section of Vietnamese idioms that have Vietnamese idioms account for very abundant ratio in the stock of Vietnamese idioms. 4. Understanding pure Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese components in Vietnamese idioms we can see the richness, flexibility, purity, essence and humor of pure Vietnamese idioms and elegancy, well-proportioned of the idioms that contain Sino-Vietnamese elements. 5. Pure Vietnamese is the key, steering in the stock of Vietnamese idioms, reflecting sufficiently the aspects of socio-culture, working and producing of Vietnamese people, creating the characteristics of the language, the essence of Vietnamese national culture. Sino-Vietnamese elements are used by Vietnamese people as a main, popular and pure that it is irreplaceable, or shortage in the spoken language as well as in writing due to there is often a shortage in the spoken language as well as in written documents of Vietnamese people. The great values of Sino-Vietnamese elements have contributed further into the diversity of Vietnamese language and become an integral part, like mixing together into the source blood stream of Vietnamese language. 12. Applicability in practice (if any): Our thesis firstly understands the situation of using and comparing functional value, the role of pure Vietnamese components, Sino-Vietnamese in Vietnamese idioms, partly contributes into researching and explaining Vietnamese history and effect of Sino character language in Vietnamese character language. 13.Further research trends: The thesis is a commencing research works about the effect of Sino character language in Vietnamese character language. We hope to continue to go further to research and collect achievements in this research trend. Especially the issue of reciprocal effect between Sino idioms with Vietnamese equivalences and the reasoning of general idiomatic study. 14. The published works relating to the thesis: None