Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person referenceThis 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. |
Contents
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NATIVE MODELS AND THE MEANINGS OF VIETNAMESE KINSHIP TERMS | 37 |
STRUCTURE PRACTICE AND POLITICS | 83 |
4 PERSONAL PRONOUNS | 123 |
5 NATIVE MODELS STRUCTURAL OPPOSITIONS AND DISCURSIVE PRACTICES | 149 |
GENEALOGICAL REFERENTS AND REFERENTIAL PERSPECTIVES IN VIETNAMESE KIN TERM USAGES | 173 |
EQUIVALENCE RULES FOR THE GENEALOGICAL EXTENSION OF VIETNAMESE KIN TERMINOLOGY | 181 |
LOGICAL RELATIONS AND RULES OF LINGUISTIC USAGES | 183 |
STATUS TERMS IN THE NGUYÊNPHÚC PATRILINE | 187 |
NOTES | 189 |
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Common terms and phrases
addressee reference addressor addressor and addressee ambiguity analysis bác behavioral patterns Calville câu child chú common and proper common nouns Confucian constitute contrast Dân definitions dominant exclusive disjunction father female Frege French pronouns gender genealogical grandmother hierarchical Ibid illocutionary force interactional situation junior uncle Katz kinship terms language lexical linguistic forms male male-oriented model Malinowski maternal junior meanings of Vietnamese middle name Minh mother name taboo native models non-male-oriented model north Vietnam ông organic unity framework patriline patrilineage patrilocal residence patronym Peirce personal name personal pronouns pragmatic presuppositions pragmatic relations presupposes and implies proper nouns prototypical reality referential perspective relatives role rules same-generation senior sense and reference solidarity speaker speech interactants speech utterance status terms structural opposition subsystems system of person tên theoretical third-party references thou/thee Vietnam Vietnamese kin terms Vietnamese kinship Vietnamese person reference Vietnamese personal pronouns Vietnamese sociocultural system Vietnamese system words younger sibling