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

By:

Burt, Susan Meredith

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773417335
0773417338

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

495.9/7209775 495.97209775

LOC classification:

PL4072 .B87 2010

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 directly from the language's extended contact with American English, this book illustrates the localized, specific, pragmatic effects of language globalization on a small, displaced language community.

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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 directly from the language's extended contact with American English, this book illustrates the localized, specific, pragmatic effects of language globalization on a small, displaced language community.