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Managers see, analysts hear. Epistemic divide in financial dialogues 经理人看到，分析师听到。金融对话中的认知鸿沟

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.009

Costanza Lucchini , Andrea Rocci , Johanna Miecznikowski

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Syntactic study of self-repair and self-reformulation in French and Spanish: Effects of utterance length 法语和西班牙语自我修复和自我重构的句法研究：话语长度的影响

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.017

Luisa Fernanda Acosta Córdoba , Raphaël Py

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Corrigendum to ““#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags” [J. Pragmatics 235 (2025) 238–253/12] “#你不羞耻”：解读不礼貌政治标签的语用学”的勘误表[J]。语用学235 (2025)238-253/12]

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.007

Seyed Mohammadreza Mortazavi , Hamed Zandi

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“Wha, what is this?”: Interactive elements in the representation of thoughts in Japanese manga (comics) “什么，这是什么？”：日本漫画（漫画）中思想表现的互动元素

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.002

Giancarla Unser-Schutz

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A critical pragmatic study of stance in peter Obi's world press conference speeches 彼得·欧比世界新闻发布会演讲立场的批判性实用主义研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.004

Felicia Oamen

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“Then journeys are like life itself, rarely straight”: Towards a meta-metaphorical perspective on life–journey interactions “那么旅程就像生活本身，很少是笔直的”：对生命旅程互动的元隐喻视角

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.006

Ming-Yu Tseng

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‘If they say “there's a photo ban and any clothes you can forget about taking them”’: Interactional functions of hypothetical direct reported speech in adoption assessment interviews “如果他们说‘禁止拍照，禁止穿任何衣服’”：收养评估访谈中假设性直接间接引语的互动功能

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.003

Madeleine Wirzén

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“Off-the-shelf” features and pragmatic trajectories: The years of cioè in Italian “现成的”特征和实用主义轨迹：cioè在意大利的岁月

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.008

Chiara Ghezzi

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.001

Wataru Nakamura , Tomoko Endo

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Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews 人工智能可以模拟或模仿人类的姿势吗？使用元话语比较gpt生成的和人类撰写的学术书评

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.018

Guangyuan Yao , Zhaoxia Liu

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