What is it about?
This paper is about when speakers of Vietnamese include or omit the subject of their sentences in reported speech in naturally occurring conversations.
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Why is it important?
Little research has been done on Vietnamese grammar in context in interaction. Research on reported speech has not examined how speakers utilize the options to mark the source that are available in languages such as Vietnamese.
Perspectives
Grammar as abstract rules is quite different from grammar as choices and resources in discourse. This paper shows that grammar is fluid and needs to be understood in its natural habitat: talk-in-interaction. On the practical side, students of Vietnamese can gain insights about how the language works in authentic conversations.
Dr Hanh T Nguyen
Hawaii Pacific University
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This page is a summary of: Source marking in represented talk and thought in Vietnamese narratives, Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/text-2015-0019.
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