So sánh ý niệm về không gian trong tiếng Việt và tiếng Đức qua ví dụ “trên - dưới”

Abstract

This article analyses word uses in Vietnamese and especially in German for spacial indications from the perspective of language-culture-thinking through examples “on - under” in Vietnamese in comparison with German. The examples presented in this paper firstly indicate that Vietnamese people tend to be “subjective” in locating space, i.e. they place themselves in the world, taking themselves as reference for location. Meanwhile, German people consider themselves “observer” to locate things, events around.