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Hieu Thi Minh Ngo

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Open access Sep 2026

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...

Diem Thuy Nguyen, Hieu Thi Minh Ngo · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Proverbs as Inference Architecture: Projected Obligation, Humour, and Defeasibility in English and Vietnamese

This article models proverb use as an inference architecture: a conventionalised form–function configuration through which recognisable proverbial form compresses reasoning, invokes collective authority, and projects accountable uptake. Although paremiological and pragmatic accounts show that proverbs are culturally de...

Carrington Nguyen, Hieu Thi Minh Ngo · 0 citations

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