A study on speech acts used in Vietnamese peasant spouses' communication during 1930-1945

Abstract

   This article shows that speech acts used in the peasant spouses' communication during 1930-1945 are abundant and theu frequencies of usage are not regular. There are some groups of acts with high frequencies of occurrence and yet some other groups with lowfrequencies. What leads to this phenomenon is the domination of certain social factors over the peasant spouses' communication. However, it is undeniable that through their use of speech acts, their habits, their characteristics of thinking, of social classes and a depth of culture values which have reigned in every Viet peasant family for thousands of generations are clearly evident