Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

Luong, Hy V.

ISBN 10: 1556192770 / ISBN 13: 9781556192777

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1990

A good copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement), lacking a dust-jacket. Underlining and pencilled notes throughout the text, with some post-it note markers to some pages. Binding is bright and fresh in appearance. Seller Inventory # 019404

Synopsis:

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 meanings as prominently as any denotative features. It is argued that the significance of pragmatic implications should be analyzed in relation to the native speaker's conception of the world.

Language Notes: Text: English, Vietnamese

Bibliographic Details

Title: Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings...
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition