... MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG LÊ THỊ NGA A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF THE WORDS DENOTING BIRDS IN ENGLISH AND ... Hopefully, doing a study of the WDBs contributes to the present recognition of the field. And the findings of semantic aspects as well as analysis of pragmatic aspects of these kinds of words will ... and way of living. Thirdly, while the Vietnamese consider the WDB “én” as a messenger of spring because of the warm weather in spring in Vietnam, the WDBs “swallow” in English is not defined...