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    Changes in Chinese Culture as Examined Through Changes in Personal Pronoun Usage

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    Hamamura, Takeshi
    Xu, Y.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    For the last several decades, Chinese society has experienced transformative changes in its social ecology. Is Chinese culture more individualistic today as a result? The current research examined this question by cross-temporally examining the usage of Chinese personal pronouns associated with individualism–collectivism. A Chinese corpus encompassing the period from 1950 to 2008 was analyzed using the Google Ngram Viewer. Cross-temporal changes in the usages of personal pronouns conceptually associated with individualism–collectivism were non-linear and highly similar to the patterns found for pronouns and non-pronoun words unassociated with individualism–collectivism. Follow-up analyses that disentangled these patterns indicated an increasing usage of individualistic pronouns and a decreasing usage of collectivistic pronouns in recent decades.

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    Hamamura, T. and Xu, Y. 2015. Changes in Chinese Culture as Examined Through Changes in Personal Pronoun Usage. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 46 (7): pp. 930-941.
    Source Title
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
    DOI
    10.1177/0022022115592968
    ISSN
    0022-0221
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4539
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