Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics

The present study investigates the Compatibility Condition (CC) for multiple expressive elements in Vietnamese. We identify Vietnamese kinship terms, pronouns, and racial slurs as expressives, i.e. conventional implicature (Potts 2005), where different expressive items interact. We find that there a...

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Main Authors: Juliet Huynh, Suwon Yoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hawaii Press 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52457