| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 213 pages) : illustrations |
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Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 11 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 11. 0922-842X
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| Contents |
DISCURSIVE PRACTICES AND LINGUISTIC MEANINGS THE VIETNAMESE SYSTEM OF PERSON REFERENCE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; 1. REPRESENTATION, CHOICE, AND LANGUAGE: AN INTRODUCTION; 2. "BROTHER" AND "UNCLE": NATIVE MODELS AND THE MEANINGS OF VIETNAMESE KINSHIP TERMS; 3. VIETNAMESE PROPER NOUNS: STRUCTURE, PRACTICE, AND POLITICS; 4. PERSONAL PRONOUNS; 5. NATIVE MODELS, STRUCTURAL OPPOSITIONS, AND DISCURSIVE PRACTICES; APPENDIX 1: GENEALOGICAL REFERENTS AND REFERENTIAL PERSPECTIVES IN VIETNAMESE KIN TERM USAGES |
| Summary |
This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a critical analysis of the major theoretical premises of dominant approaches to denotation and connotation, to knowledge of language and to knowledge of the world. The study suggests that the pragmatic presuppositions of Vietnamese person-referring forms figure in the native definitions of linguistic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Vietnamese language -- Usage
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Vietnamese language -- Address, Forms of
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Vietnamese language -- Noun
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Vietnamese.
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Vietnamese language -- Noun
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Vietnamese language -- Usage
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Anrede
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Spreektaal.
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Referentie.
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Vietnamees.
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Vietnamese language -- Usage.
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Vietnamese language -- Noun.
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Vietnamesisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90031711 |
| ISBN |
9789027283351 |
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9027283354 |
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