Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Modern Education Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Social Science (MEMIESS 2021)

Transferred Reference in Chinese Vocabulary

Taking the First Person as Examples

Authors
Lei Shen
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Lei Shen
Available Online 29 July 2021.
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10.2991/assehr.k.210728.018How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Reference, I, We, Type, Context, Pragmatics
Abstract

This article uses corpus analysis to analyze and summarize the types and contexts of the transferred reference of Chinese first person “I” and “we”, and analyze the motivation from the perspective of pragmatics. “I” has three types: “you”, “he/she” and “we”, and three contexts: formal occasions, turn-taking between the two parties, and entering a virtual scene; “We” has four types: “I”, “you”, “he/she” and “they”, and four contexts: expressing opinions, persuading or comforting each other, reducing responsibility and embodying close relationship. There are three motivations: to follow the politeness principle, to achieve pragmatic empathy or de-empathy and to adjust the pragmatic distance.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Modern Education Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Social Science (MEMIESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 July 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-410-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210728.018How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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