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Discursive practices and linguistic meanings : the vietnamese system of person reference
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ISBN: 9027250219 9786613174291 1283174294 9027283354 9789027250216 9789027283351 1556192770 9781556192777 Volume: 11 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins.

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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


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Woordenboek van de familienamen in België en Noord-Frankrijk
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ISBN: 9020402072 9789020402070 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam Veen

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