Discursive practices and linguistic meanings : the Vietnamese system of person reference / Hy V. Luong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luong, Hy V.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 11.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese language--Usage.

Vietnamese language.

Vietnamese language--Address, Forms of.

Vietnamese language--Noun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

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

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

APPENDIX 2: EQUIVALENCE RULES FOR THE GENEALOGICAL EXTENSION OF VIETNAMESE KIN TERMINOLOGY; APPENDIX 3: LOGICAL RELATIONS AND RULES OF LINGUISTIC USAGES; APPENDIX 4: STATUS TERMS IN THE NGUYÊN-PHÚC PATRILINE; NOTES; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-17429-4

9786613174291

90-272-8335-4

OCLC:

742361670