An analysis of cultural differences in Chinese and English first-person deixis from the perspective of pragmatic empathy

Theory and Practice in Language Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1868-1872

  Zhang, Shirong ^a   Wu, Xiuxiu ^b   Feng, Yue ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; First person deixis; Pragmatic empathy and de empathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901248537     PISSN: 17992591     EISSN: 20530692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/tpls.3.10.1868-1872     Document Type: Article

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