中英政治演说中第一人称代词的对比研究

A Comparative Study on First Person Pronouns in Chinese and English Political Speeches

作为几乎所有语言中都存在的一种语言现象,第一人称代词备受广大语言学家及学者的关注。本文以中美领导人在不同场合的11篇政治演说为语料,对中英文政治话语中第一人称代词的使用频率和具体用法进行了定量分析。结果表明,中美政治家在发表政治演说时在第一人称代词的频率和用法上存在显著差异,而这种差异既是由汉英不同的语言特点造成的,也是由中美不同的社会文化因素以及所选文本的性质造成的。

As a common linguistic phenomenon of all languages,first person pronouns have attracted great attention of linguists and scholars. This paper uses 11 political speeches given by Chinese and American leaders as the sample to analyze the use of first person pronouns in political speeches. Distinguished differences have been found on their frequencies and specific uses,which might result from the different linguistic features of Chinese and English,different socio-cultural factors and the quality of the chosen texts.