On April 5th, British local time, the Queen of England delivered an special speech on COVID-19. The significance of this speech can also be said to be extraordinary. This paper will take the Queen's anti-epidemic speech as the corpus to study the personal deixis in this speech and explore the pragmatic empathetic function of personal deixis in this speech, so as to help people better interpret this anti-epidemic speech.

Mian Wang. A Pragmatic Empathy Analysis of the Personal Deixis in the Queen's Anti-epidemic Speech. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2020), Vol. 2, Issue 6: 74-80. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2020.020610.

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