Transferred Reference in Chinese Vocabulary

Taking the First Person as Examples

DOI

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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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Shen
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/29
TI  - Transferred Reference in Chinese Vocabulary
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Modern Education Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Social Science (MEMIESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 91
EP  - 94
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210728.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210728.018
ID  - Shen2021
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