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Revisiting respect and politeness: Insights from metapragmatics of zunzhong in Chinese public spaces 重新审视尊重与礼貌：来自中国公共空间遵忠元语用学的洞察

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.001

Linsen Zhao

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Response cries and syntax 回应呐喊和语法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.012

Leelo Keevallik , Emily Hofstetter , Agnes Löfgren , Sally Wiggins

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How to investigate implicit pragmatic phenomena in corpora 如何研究语料库中的隐含语用现象

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.007

Katalin Nagy C., Enikő Németh T., Zsuzsanna Németh

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Criticism in Korean and Chinese workplace observation reality shows 韩国和中国职场观察真人秀的批评

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.011

Weihua Zhu

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Responding with ‘really’ in Korean conversation 在韩语对话中用“真的”来回应

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.010

Stephanie Hyeri Kim , Mary Shin Kim

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Expressing stance: A cross-linguistic study of effective and epistemic stance marking in Chinese and English opinion reports 表达立场：汉英意见报道中有效立场标记与认知立场标记的跨语言研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.009

Yuan Wei , Yi'na Wang

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A corpus-based analysis of corporate apologies and public responses on Chinese social media 基于语料库的中国社交媒体企业道歉与公众回应分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.008

Cun Zhang, Pingping Ye, Xinyue Li

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The Spanish organizers por un lado, por otro lado and discursive overmarking: An experimental study 西班牙组织者的穷学生，穷学生和话语过度：一项实验研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.004

Nadal Sanchis Laura , Bello Viruega Iria , Mañas Navarrete Iban

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From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures 从单字到多模态：跨语言文化的赞美认知

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.006

Fang Xie

{"title":"From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures","authors":"Fang Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While compliments have been widely studied through various methods, recipient perceptions in multimodal contexts remain insufficiently explored. Multimodal cues, such as intonation, gestures, and facial expressions, may play a crucial role in shaping compliment perception, yet these factors lack systematic analysis. To address this gap, this study examines how compliments are perceived across different modalities using the Modal Incremental Perception Method (MIP). Specifically, it investigates how 362 native speakers of English, Swiss German, and Chinese perceive the same compliments in four modes: text-only, text with emojis, audio, and multimodal video. Through online experiments and retrospective interviews, this study explores multiple dimensions of compliment perception, including sincerity, politeness, appropriateness, likeability, and pleasantness, along with participants' reasoning for their evaluations. The quantitative results show that lingua culture significantly influences perceptions of the four forms of compliments to varying degrees, with the inclusion of multimodal information affecting compliment perceptions across lingua culture groups. Additionally, the qualitative analysis shows that participants’ reasons for compliment perceptions are influenced by both lingua culture and individual differences. Overall, this study shifts the analytical focus from compliment production to perception and provides a multidimensional perspective on compliments, therefore advancing speech act research from the perspective of compliments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"239 ","pages":"Pages 94-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Payment offers, suggestions to share expenses and payment negotiation sequences on initial dates in Germany and the United Kingdom 在德国和英国，付款方式、分摊费用的建议和付款谈判顺序

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.016

Anne Barron

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