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Characteristics of Vietnamese lexis of Vietnamese Australian immigrants

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2016-10

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Dao, Muc Dich

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Asia-Pacific Linguistics, ANU

Abstract

The Vietnamese of Australian communities (VAC) still maintains many obsolete expressions originating from and related to the Southern Vietnamese political institutions of the pre-1975 Southern government. In addition, VAC has adopted English loanwords (ELs) through close contact with Australian English and uses them extensively to fill gaps in vocabulary. English loanwords have not only been borrowed in their original forms but were also nativized through the mechanism of loanwords and loan translation. Moreover, hybridised expressions have been coined by Vietnamese Australian émigrés through the compounding of one English or Vietnamese item with a Vietnamese or English item through loan blending.

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Vietnamese in Australia, lexis, language contact

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109396

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS)

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Journal article

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Open Access

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