The Hmong Language in Wisconsin : Language Shift and Pragmatic Change.

This work demonstrates the change in how speakers use language to request, thank, and perform other interpersonal verbal tasks in Hmong, an immigrant language now spoken in Wisconsin, Minnesota and California, as well as in its native Laos. Since the changes that have taken place in Hmong follow dir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burt, Susan Meredith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Temas:
Hmong language > Wisconsin > Usage.
Hmong language > United States > Usage.
English language > Influence on Hmong.
Languages in contact.
Linguistic change.
Langues en contact.
Changement linguistique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Languages & Literatures.
East Asian Languages & Literatures.
United States.
Wisconsin.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Hmong and language shift
  • Language shift and pragmatics
  • Requests by two generations of speakers
  • Wisconsin Hmong speakers' responses to helpful acts
  • Advice for a face-threatening situation
  • Towards a pragmatics of language shift
  • Appendix A: Hmong language speech act realization questionnaire
  • Appendix B: consonants, vowels and tones of Hmong
  • Bibliography
  • Index of proper names
  • Subject index.

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