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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781480703321

Autore

Luong Hy V

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-17429-4

9786613174291

90-272-8335-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 11

Disciplina

495.9225

Soggetti

Vietnamese language - Usage

Vietnamese language - Address, Forms of

Vietnamese language - Noun

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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