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…
"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…