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Style markers in speech act realization: A corpus-based analysis of the cute style sajiao in Chinese 言语行为实现中的风格标记：基于语料库的汉语可爱风格撒娇分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.002

Jueyun Su

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Prosodic disambiguation of the Mandarin discourse marker Fanzheng (“anyway”): A corpus-based study of functional asymmetry at utterance peripheries 普通话话语标记“反正”的韵律消歧：基于语料库的话语外围功能不对称研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.005

Yi Shan , Weiwei Chu

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Phrasal or clausal grammatical formats of instructions in a boxing ‘mitt-hitting’ activity 短语或小句语法格式的指令在拳击‘拳击’活动

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.009

Misao Okada

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How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment 学生如何获得帮助：学校身份作为一种招生资源

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.001

Rosario Neyra , Kobin H. Kendrick , Merran Toerien

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Interpretive constructs: The case of incitement to violence and terror 解释性构念：煽动暴力和恐怖的案例

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.004

Roni Danziger

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A functional classification of aggressive digital replies to Pedro Sánchez' posts on X 对Pedro Sánchez在X上的帖子的侵略性数字回复的功能分类

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.003

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

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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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