Changes and Development of Person Indicator in Internet Context

Linguistic references to personal pronouns in traditional grammar, i.e., the person indicative in pragmatics, refer to the mutual address of both parties of a conversation when they use discourse to convey information or address the indirect participants. With the development of the times, the gradual popularity of online communication, the promotion of the Internet media platform and other factors have changed the meaning of personal indicatives. This paper statistically analyzes the corpus data of personal indicatives in commonly used online media and finds that there is a phenomenon of language expansion in personal indicatives in online contexts, with the third person having the highest degree of expansion. In further analysis, this paper, in accordance with the theory of cultural information trichotomy, points out that this phenomenon is related to cultural products, value norms and interpersonal harmony through the analysis of specific examples, and seeks to construct the ecology of network civilization.