On The Personal Pronouns In The Marriage Awakening The World

Marriage Awakening the World, as an valuable corpus of chinese language, plays a significant role in the history of modern chinese. A study of the personal pronouns contained in the book will reveal the features of the language in the period when it was written.The personal pronouns discussed in this thesis include the first, the second and the third persons. The study falls into five chapters. The first chapter reviews the literatures on the Marriage Awakening the World , and those on the personal pronouns. Later it puts forwards an methodology to approach the pronouns. The main body of the present study is to make a detailed description of the personal pronouns , expound relevant language phenomena, and finally make a qualitative analysis of them.Specifically, the thesis studies the functions and semantic characteristics of the first personal pronouns: wo(我),wo deng (我等),wo men (我们),zan(咱),zan men(咱们),an(俺),an men(俺们), the second Personal Pronouns: including ni(你),ni men(你们),nin(您),nin men(您们)and the third Personal Pronouns: ta(他),ta men(他们). Then they are brought into a comparison with modern LinQing dialect. It is found that Marriage Awakening the World are abundant in personal pronouns which are fully developed in their syntax and semantic functions. The wide use of zan(咱), nin(您),ta(他) marks the maturity of modern Chinese system of personal pronouns. Plural pronouns in this book are very close to those of modern Chinese in that a men(们) is introduced behind the personal pronouns. On the other hand, nin(您) in this book does not convey respect while ta(他) is used to refer to both people and objects. That is where the pronouns in Marriage Awakening the World differ from Modern Chinese personal pronouns.