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Báo cáo " Grammatical and semantic features of some English words and idioms denoting happiness - the feeling of great pleasure "

This article is intended for the discussion of the lexemes denoting the feeling of great pleasure sub-classified into four groups of adjectives (‘delighted’, ‘elated’, and ‘jubilant’); nouns (‘bliss’, ‘ecstasy’, ‘euphoria’, ‘glee’, ‘joy’, and ‘rapture’); verbs (‘exult’ and ‘rejoice’); and idioms (‘walk on air’, ‘in seventh heaven’, ‘on cloud nine’, ‘on top of the world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘thrilled to bits’). | VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 25 2009 165-173 Grammatical and semantic features of some English words and idioms denoting happiness - the feeling of great pleasure Nguyen Thi Van Lam Department of Foreign Languages Vinh University Nghe An Vietnam Received 4 February 2009 Abstract. This article is intended for the discussion of the lexemes denoting the feeling of great pleasure sub-classified into four groups of adjectives delighted elated and jubilant nouns bliss ecstasy euphoria glee joy and rapture verbs exult and rejoice and idioms walk on air in seventh heaven on cloud nine on top of the world over the moon and thrilled to bits . They are dealt with in respect of their grammatical features including the syntactic functions and morphology and their semantic structures including lexical meaning synonyms collocational range words and idioms of which the word denoting the feeling is a constituent. Some suggestions in the teaching and learning of as well as in the translation concerned with the lexemes are finally provided. 1. Introduction The feeling of happiness ranges from the least pleasure to the greatest one which can be expressed by different linguistics items in the English language. Each linguistic item has its subtle nuance of meaning in terms of grammar and semantics. In this article we are to discuss the grammatical features 1 2 and semantic structures 3-5 of the English words and idioms denoting the feeling of great pleasure sub-classified into four groups of adjectives delighted elated and jubilant nouns bliss ecstasy euphoria glee joy and rapture verbs exult and rejoice and idioms walk on air in seventh heaven on cloud nine on top of the world over the moon and thrilled to bits . All the lexemes listed are the headings of each sub-section in which the grammatical features lexical Tel. 84- 038 3555656. E-mail nguyenthivanlam@gmail.com 165 meaning synonyms collocational range and idioms with the words as well as words related to them in terms