Thai students' usage of Mandarin second-person pronoun "ni" and "nin"

Authors

Seubpong Changboonchu

Publication Date

2010-01-01

Abstract

There are two forms of single second-person pronouns in Modern Chinese language, namely ni and nin Various factors should be considered between two communicating parties about which term is better to be used. The Thai language's secondperson pronoun system is quite similar to that of Modern Chinese language, but the forms in Thai are more diverse. In this paper, questionnaires and interviews are used to investigate Thai students' use of ni and nin. The findings show that Thai students use second-person pronouns differently from Chinese people whose usage is closely related to their mother tongue and culture.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.ARV.23.1.7

First Page

103

Last Page

113

Recommended Citation

Changboonchu, Seubpong (2010) "Thai students' usage of Mandarin second-person pronoun "ni" and "nin"," Asian Review: Vol. 23: No. 1, Article 8.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.ARV.23.1.7
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/arv/vol23/iss1/8