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The First Personal Pronoun "吾" and "我" in Ancient Times

XU Guo-li

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The paper statistics the usage of the first personal pronouns 吾 and 我 in ancient books,such as Shang Shu,Zhuangzi,Zuo zhuan.And discusses the discrimination between 吾 and 我.They are dissimilar slightly in grammatical functions and pragmatics.The usage frequency of 吾 exceeds 我 gradually at last.

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The paper statistics the usage of the first personal pronouns 吾 and 我 in ancient books,such as Shang Shu,Zhuangzi,Zuo zhuan.And discusses the discrimination between 吾 and 我.They are dissimilar slightly in grammatical functions and pragmatics.The usage frequency of 吾 exceeds 我 gradually at last.

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The paper statistics the usage of the first personal pronouns 吾 and 我 in ancient books,such as Shang Shu,Zhuangzi,Zuo zhuan.And discusses the discrimination between 吾 and 我.They are dissimilar slightly in grammatical functions and pragmatics.The usage frequency of 吾 exceeds 我 gradually at last.

Key concepts: Personal pronoun, Pronoun, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Object pronoun, Literature, Philosophy, History

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