Title: Pragmatic Contrastive Analysis of the First-person Deixis in English and Chinese
Abstract: Deixis is a key part of pragmatics studies.The first-person deixis is seemingly simple,but actually complicated.Its usage and pragmatics functions vary due to the cultural differences between Chinese and Eng-lish as well as difference in situation,purpose of communication,interpersonal relations,etc.The article takes up discussions on the usages and pragmatic functions of the first-person deixis in pragmatics perspective with the view to revealing person deixis’commonness and difference between Chinese and English in pragmatics.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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