... 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG TRẦN QUANG LONG A STUDY OF LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DENOTING PERSONALITY IN ENGLISH AND THEIR ... an investigation into linguistic features of adjectival phrases denoting personality used mainly in novels, stories of English, Australian and American authors, which includes syntactic and ... local meaning. a. Conceptual Meaning According to Yule, G. [24], when we investigate the meaning of words, phrases and sentences in a language, we are normally interested in characterizing the...