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, an…
Lists English definitions for fifty thousand Vietnamese words and phrases, including synonyms and antonyms, examples, and a pronunciation guide highlighting regional differences.
In the late 1930's, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city's nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. for Phung, a popular w…
In the late 1930's, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city's nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. for Phung, a popular w…
Main description: This volume, the first of its kind, is an international survey of linguistic research into Vietnamese. Vietnamese, one of the major languages of South East Asia, is considered a particularly interesting case of an isolating language among linguists of different…
"Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media ... all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietn…
Nouns, noun phrases and their components -- Verbs, verb phrases and their components -- Adjectives, adjective phrases and their components -- Word-formation -- Sentences -- Problem words, phrases and constructions -- Pronunciation. "Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar is a concise…
