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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1. Verfasser: Burt, Susan Meredith
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (287 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780773417335
0773417338

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