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“Uh, I'm a pretty sick guy”: The dialogue of American Psycho in fiction and film “呃，我是一个相当恶心的家伙”：小说和电影中的美国精神病对话

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.007

Aja Čelhar, Monika Kavalir

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Dynamic interplay of social variables in request strategies of workplace e-mails 职场电子邮件请求策略中社会变量的动态相互作用

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.008

Gayeong Jung, Hikyoung Lee

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.004

Zhou-min Yuan, Jinjing Xv

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.005

Karin Aijmer

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.003

Minxia Tong, Chengtuan Li

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Pragmatic alternatives and social meaning 语用选择和社会意义

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.001

Eric K. Acton , Matthew Hunt

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The impact of self-access web-based instruction on EFL learners' pragmatic awareness of email requests to faculty 网络自助教学对英语学习者对教师电子邮件请求语用意识的影响

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.006

Sonia López-Serrano

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Relating to others and (not) getting along: What triggers evaluative reactions? 与他人相处而不是相处：是什么引发了评价性反应？

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.002

Helen Spencer-Oatey , Jiayi Wang

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Pragmatic variation across the New Englishes 新英语的语用变化

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.015

Foluke Unuabonah , Ulrike Gut

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Refusals in Japanese parliamentary deliberations 在日本议会的审议中遭到拒绝

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.014

Chen Huiling, Liu Yiting

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