本文阐述了远近指示词在语言学中的重要意义,并从语用的角度对英语和汉语的远近指示词进行对比分析,指出在英,汉两种语言中,远近指示词在语义上的对等而在语用上的不同。本文分析了影响英,汉远近指示词使用的因素,指出思维方式的不同是其根本原因。 This article elaborates the significance of the near and far demonstratives in linguistics, and makes a contrastive analysis of the near and far demonstratives of English and Chinese from the perspective of pragmatics. It points out that in the English and Chinese languages, the near and far demonstratives are semantically correct And so on in the pragmatic difference. This paper analyzes the factors that affect the use of near-pointer in English and Chinese and points out that the difference in mode of thinking is the root cause.