Intro -- DISCURSIVE PRACTICES AND LINGUISTIC MEANINGS THE VIETNAMESE SYSTEM OF PERSON REFERENCE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1. REPRESENTATION, CHOICE, AND LANGUAGE: AN INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The Vietnamese System of Person Reference -- 1.2 Representation and Choice: A Theoretical Overview -- 1.2.1. Language as Representation -- 1.2.2 Language as Choice -- 2. "BROTHER" AND "UNCLE": NATIVE MODELS AND THE MEANINGS OF VIETNAMESE KINSHIP TERMS -- 2.1 Kinship Terms and the Native Sociocultural Universe: An Analytical Re-Definition -- 2.1.1 Text and Context -- 2.1.2 Vietnamese Kinship Terminology and the Native Sociocultural System: A Re-definition of a Problem -- 2.2 The ho: Structural Oppositions in Vietnamese Kinship -- 2.2.1 The Male-Oriented Model in Vietnamese Kinship -- 2.2.2 The Non-Male-Oriented Model in Vietnamese Kinship -- 2.3 Vietnamese Kin Terms: Meanings and Structural Oppositions between Native Models -- 2.3.1 Meaning and Use in Vietnamese Kinship -- 2.3.2 Meaning Ambiguity, Structural Oppositions, and Linguistic Choices -- 3. VIETNAMESE PROPER NOUNS: STRUCTURE, PRACTICE, AND POLITICS -- 3.1 Vietnamese Names: Structural Relations and History -- 3.1.1 Ethnographic Background -- 3.1.2 The Naming Act and Intra-category Variation -- 3.1.3 The Act of Choice among Name Categories -- 3.2 The Meaning and Use of Proper Nouns -- 3.2.1 Theoretical Perspectives on Proper Nouns and the Case of Names in Vietnamese Person Reference -- 3.2.2 Acts and Names: Diversity and Structural Oppositions from an Historical Perspective -- 4. PERSONAL PRONOUNS -- 4.1 Contexts and Meanings -- 4.2 Linguistic Usages and Structural Oppositions: Personal Pronouns and Beyond -- 4.2.1 Personal Pronouns, the Native Organic Unity Conception, and Pragmatic Presuppositions.

4.2.2 Structural Oppositions beyond Vietnamese Kinship from an Historical Perspective -- 5. NATIVE MODELS, STRUCTURAL OPPOSITIONS, AND DISCURSIVE PRACTICES -- 5.1 Pragmatic Presupposition, Meaning, and Use -- 5.1.1 Language and Knowledge of the World -- 5.1.2 Pragmatic Presuppositions and Linguistic Meanings -- 5.2 Structural Oppositions, Discursive Practices, and Linguistic Meanings: A Concluding Statement -- APPENDIX 1: GENEALOGICAL REFERENTS AND REFERENTIAL PERSPECTIVES IN VIETNAMESE KIN TERM USAGES -- A1.1. Genealogical Referents of Vietnamese Kin Terms -- A1.2 Formal Analysis and Referential Perspective -- APPENDIX 2: EQUIVALENCE RULES FOR THE GENEALOGICAL EXTENSION OF VIETNAMESE KIN TERMINOLOGY -- APPENDIX 3: LOGICAL RELATIONS AND RULES OF LINGUISTIC USAGES -- APPENDIX 4: STATUS TERMS IN THE NGUYÊN-PHÚC PATRILINE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

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.

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