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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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Pragmatic functions of question tags in Indian and Sri Lankan English 印度语和斯里兰卡语英语疑问句的语用功能

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.005

Julia Degenhardt

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“Such large appetites, such shallow pockets......!!!!!!!!!”: Rapport-challenging practices in businesses’ responses to TripAdvisor reviews “这么大的胃口，这么浅的口袋......!!!!!!!!！：企业对TripAdvisor评论的回应中存在的挑战关系的做法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.003

Christopher Hopkinson

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Can ChatGPT recognize impoliteness? An exploratory study of the pragmatic awareness of a large language model ChatGPT能识别不礼貌吗？大型语言模型的语用意识探索性研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.001

Marta Andersson, Dan McIntyre

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Secondary grammaticalization and subjectification: A case study of Korean conditional, concessive, and deontic modal eya 二次语法化与主体化：韩国语条件、让步和道义情态语气的个案研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.015

Minju Kim

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.002

Alexander Holmberg, Naoko Taguchi

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(Re)categorizing lexical encapsulation: An experimental approach （二）词汇封装分类：一种实验方法

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.017

Óscar Loureda Lamas , Mathis Teucher , Celia Hernández Pérez , Adriana Cruz Rubio , Carlos Gelormini-Lezama

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When is it legitimate to cancel a potential scalar implicature? The roles of the Question Under Discussion and optimal relevance 什么时候取消潜在的标量隐含是合法的？讨论中的问题的作用和最佳关联

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.014

Begoña Vicente

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A study of linguistic mitigation, writer empathy and recipient personality in requesting and bringing bad news via email 通过电子邮件请求和传递坏消息的语言缓和、作者共情和收件人个性研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.010

Nicolas Ruytenbeek , Thomas Holtgraves

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Communicative intentions and liminal signs in interaction with people living with late-stage dementia 与晚期痴呆症患者互动的沟通意图和阈限信号

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.006

Lars-Christer Hydén , Anna Ekström , Ali Reza Majlesi

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