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Cambodian
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 173.00Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of ?Desesperanto? - a language of which one can read a page and understand... more...
Disorientation
Hong Kong University Press 2004; US$ 38.00The close readings that form the core of the book are inflected by cultural and historical considerations, and informed by a range of primary documents that includes training manuals for colonial administrators, works of imperialist propaganda, tourist guidebooks and travel writing, and textbooks from Franco-Vietnamese schools. more...
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 158.00This 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... more...
Vietnamese
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 180.00An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures. All example texts are transcribed... more...
Black Dog, Black Night
Milkweed Editions 2011; US$ 18.00The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam?s diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories... more...
Complete Vietnamese
Hodder Education 2010; US$ 35.18The best-selling complete course for a fun and effective way to learn Vietnamese. This ISBN is for the paperback book. The corresponding audio support (ISBN: 9781444101898) is also available. The book and audio support can also be purchased as a pack (ISBN: 9781444101881). more...
Colloquial Vietnamese
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Colloquial Vietnamese is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, this course provides a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Vietnamese. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Vietnamese is: interactive ? with lots of dialogues and exercises... more...
Vietnamese Tone
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 351.00This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages. more...
Grammar of Mangghuer
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 200.00This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside China, and no grammar of Mangghuer has ever been published in any language. The book's primary importance is thus as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language.... more...
Untersuchungen zum Problem der seriellen Verben
De Gruyter 1990; US$ 133.00Untersuchungen Zum Problem Der Seriellen Verben: VOR Berlegungen Zu Ihrer Grammatik Und Exemplarische Analyse Des Vietnamesischen. more...









