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.
| ISBN: | 9789027250216 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1990 |
| Author: | Hy V Luong |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Series: | Pragmatics & Beyond New Series |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |
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.
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings features in the following genres: Linguistics
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings is available in Hardback
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings was written by Hy V Luong and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings has 221 pages
Yes it is part of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series series