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…
"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…
A piercing, unforgettable tale of the horror and spiritual weariness of war, Novel Without a Name will shatter every preconception Americans have about what happened in the jungles of Vietnam. With Duong Thu Huong, whose Paradise of the Blind was published to high critical accla…
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…
