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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.002

Laura Portolés

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.011

Tiancheng Chen

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.012

Fang Xie, Yubo Wang

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From complainees to co-complainants: Practices of institutional actors facing complaints 从被投诉人到共同投诉人：面对投诉的机构行为者的做法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.004

Tianhao Zhang

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Correction in embodied interaction: How teachers and children reflexively manage a preschool mobile formation in traffic 具身互动的纠正：教师和儿童如何在交通中反射性地管理学龄前移动编队

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.003

Mathias Broth, Annerose Willemsen , Jakob Cromdal

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“Voilà un film original!”: A local grammar of evaluation in French film reviews “你看，电影原创！”：法国电影评论中的一种本地评价语法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.001

Rong Wen , Zhichao Wang , Xinyue Yao , Oleg Averyanov

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The affective meanings of bowing in a web corpus of Japanese 日语网络语料库中鞠躬的情感意义

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.002

Eugenia Diegoli

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Explicit and implicit compliments and compliment responses in German and Italian social networks 德语和意大利语社交网络中的显性和隐性赞美及赞美反应

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.007

Miriam Ravetto

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“You wanna flirt?” – “Let's flirt”: A corpus-based analysis of flirting “你想调情吗？”-“让我们调情”：一个基于语料库的调情分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.005

Lena Scharrer, Michelle Weckermann

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Restricting impoliteness: (Re)asserting morality in third-party mediation of Chinese interpersonal conflict 限制不礼貌：（再）中国人际冲突第三方调解中的道德主张

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.004

Xiaoming Shang , Linlin Zhan , Chaoqun Xie

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