The Hmong language in Wisconsin
Subtitle: language shift and pragmatic change
By: Susan Meredith Burt ; with a foreword by Martha Ratliff
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780773412941
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Hmong and language shift; title: Language shift and pragmatics; title: Requests by two generations of speakers; title: Wisconsin Hmong speakers' responses to helpful acts; title: Advice for a face-threatening situation; title: Towards a pragmatics of language shift; title: Appendix A: Hmong language speech act realization questionnaire; title: Appendix B: consonants, vowels and tones of Hmong; title: Bibliography; title: Index of proper names; title: Subject index.