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Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning 超越刻板印象：潜在社会意义的认知能力

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014

Inbal Kuperwasser , Einat Shetreet

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Grammaticalization and social meaning in the Japanese causative-benefactive construction: Celebrities crafting connections with their audience 日语使-益结构中的语法化和社会意义：名人与听众建立联系

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.012

Kimiyo Matsui

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Egyptian advice in casual conversations: A deep dive with corpus-based insights 随意对话中的埃及建议：深入了解基于语料库的见解

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.002

Rania Al-Sabbagh

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.015

Christina Hodeib

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.003

Matteo Di Cristofaro

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.007

J. César Félix-Brasdefer

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Explicit positive assessment as a compliment in one-on-one language teaching 在一对一的语言教学中，明确的积极评价是一种赞美

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.011

Yoshiyuki Hara

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Social meaning as Hearer's Meaning: Integrating social meaning into a general theory of meaning in communication 作为听者意义的社会意义：将社会意义纳入交际意义的一般理论

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.010

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

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(Inter)subjectivity and information structure: The pragmatics of left and right peripheries in spoken Mandarin 主体性与信息结构：普通话口语左右边缘语用学

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.003

Carmen Lepadat

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Automatic behaviour analysis reveals links between facial expression and speech acts’ illocutionary point, strength, and valence 自动行为分析揭示了面部表情与言语行为的言外点、强度和效价之间的联系

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.006

Marc Mehu, Savannah Sweeting

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