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| The difference between “wu” and “wo”：Insights from the theory of psychological distance |
| WEI Xindong1,2, WANG Fengyan2,3 |
1 School of Teacher Education, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology,Nanjing 210044;
2 Institute of Moral Education Research, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097;
3 School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097 |
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Abstract One of the important methods of self-psychology is to explore the nature and structure of self from the perspective of first-person pronouns. There are many first-person pronouns in ancient Chinese, and the differences between “wu” and “wo” are a hot spot in the study of pronouns in the field of Archaic Chinese. According to the theory of psychological distance and The Analects of Confucius and other documents in the pre-Qin period, the main difference between “wu” and “wo” is that the former is closer to the individual's experience self than the latter. The different results on the grammar and pragmatics of “wu” and “wo” in the field of linguistics can be corroborated with the related research on psychological distance, which shows that the theory of psychological distance of the difference of “wu” and “wo” can well integrate the current linguistic research. The disappearance of the difference between “wu” and “wo” may be related to the transformation of the Chinese self which influenced by Confucianism in the pre-Qin period.
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