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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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Impoliteness reciprocity online 网上不礼貌互惠

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.011

Jonathan Culpeper, Vittorio Tantucci, Eleanor Field

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The beauty of communication. Corpus analysis of adverb categories in comments on communication activities in Polish (in light of comparative data from other languages) 沟通之美。波兰语交际活动评论中副词类别的语料库分析（结合其他语言的比较数据）

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.009

Celina Heliasz-Nowosielska , Paulina Rosalska , Joanna Bilińska-Brynk

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What would you do if you could narrate your wonder years?: Interactional pragmatics of voice-over narration 如果你能讲述你的神奇岁月，你会怎么做？：画外音叙述的互动语用学

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.010

Marta Dynel

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.013

Rong Chen

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