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Expressing stance: A cross-linguistic study of effective and epistemic stance marking in Chinese and English opinion reports 表达立场：汉英意见报道中有效立场标记与认知立场标记的跨语言研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.009

Yuan Wei , Yi'na Wang

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A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media 基于语料库的中国社交媒体企业道歉与公众回应分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.008

Cun Zhang, Pingping Ye, Xinyue Li

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The Spanish organizers por un lado, por otro lado and discursive overmarking: An experimental study 西班牙组织者的穷学生，穷学生和话语过度：一项实验研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.004

Nadal Sanchis Laura , Bello Viruega Iria , Mañas Navarrete Iban

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From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures 从单字到多模态：跨语言文化的赞美认知

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.006

Fang Xie

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Payment offers, suggestions to share expenses and payment negotiation sequences on initial dates in Germany and the United Kingdom 在德国和英国，付款方式、分摊费用的建议和付款谈判顺序

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.016

Anne Barron

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Pragmatic functions of question tags in Indian and Sri Lankan English 印度语和斯里兰卡语英语疑问句的语用功能

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.005

Julia Degenhardt

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“Such large appetites, such shallow pockets......!!!!!!!!!”: Rapport-challenging practices in businesses’ responses to TripAdvisor reviews “这么大的胃口，这么浅的口袋......!!!!!!!!！：企业对TripAdvisor评论的回应中存在的挑战关系的做法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.003

Christopher Hopkinson

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Can ChatGPT recognize impoliteness? An exploratory study of the pragmatic awareness of a large language model ChatGPT能识别不礼貌吗？大型语言模型的语用意识探索性研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.001

Marta Andersson, Dan McIntyre

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Secondary grammaticalization and subjectification: A case study of Korean conditional, concessive, and deontic modal eya 二次语法化与主体化：韩国语条件、让步和道义情态语气的个案研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.015

Minju Kim

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.002

Alexander Holmberg, Naoko Taguchi

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