Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference
Hy V. Luong
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… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.