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The Hmong Language in Wisconsin: Language Shift and Pragmatic Change
Author(s): Susan Meredith Burt (Author), Martha Ratliff (Foreword)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
- Publication Date: 29 Sept. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 269 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773412948
- ISBN-13: 9780773412941
Book Description
This book demonstrates the change in how speakers use language to request, thank, and preform other interpersonal verbal tasks in Hmong, an immigrant language now spoken in Wisconsin, Minnesota and California, as well as in its native Laos.
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This book demonstrates the change in how speakers use language to request, thank, and preform other interpersonal verbal tasks in Hmong, an immigrant language now spoken in Wisconsin, Minnesota and California, as well as in its native Laos.
About the Author
Dr. Burt is a Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University. She earned her Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Illinois.
