1.1. Definition of culture and why here?
words: apart from personal pronouns,
First, to answer the question: what are
Vietnamese people also use a large number of
culture-conditioned or culturally specific
kinship nouns, and kinship nouns tend to be
linguistic features of Vietnamese text, the
more popular than personal pronouns; (ii)
concept “culture” will be defined. There exist a
preference of active constructions: Vietnamese
variety of definitions of “culture” (see [2]; [3];
people prefer active constructions to passive
[4]; [5]). This study adopts the definition that
ones; (iii) the preference of verbs to nouns:
culture refers to lifestyle, customs, norms,
“Vietnamese people like using verbs: the
behaviors, products and ideas which are seen as
number of verbs in a sentence corresponds to
typical for a community, and culture uses a
the number of actions” (see [2: 165]), and so
specific language as its tool of expression.
on.
In addition, the use of nouns or verbs also
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