Vietnamese. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese

1.Introduction 2. Selected structural properties of Vietnamese 3. Terms for human referents 3.1 Personal nouns 3.2 Kinship terms 3.3 Pronouns 4. Male/female relations in idiomatic expressions 5. Vietnamese terms of address, reference and self-reference 5.1 Sociopolitical background and characteristics of address terms 5.2 Kinship terms and common nouns 5.3 Terms of address and self-reference in various female-male encounters 5.3.1 Masters and housekeepers 5.3.2 Teachers and students 5.3.3 Neighbors and work mates 5.4 Women and men as couples 6. Conclusion Notes References