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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.010

Andreas Trotzke

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Embedding answers into ongoing story (and other extended) telling in conversational interaction 在会话互动中将答案嵌入正在进行的故事（和其他扩展）讲述中

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.008

Takeshi Hiramoto

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Saying goodbye to and thanking bus drivers in German-speaking Switzerland 在瑞士德语区向巴士司机道别和致谢

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.011

Adrian Leemann , Carina Steiner , Péter Jeszenszky , Jonathan Culpeper , Lea Josi

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Welp in talk-in-interaction: Moving on from publicly available disappointments Welp in talk-in-interaction：从公开的失望中继续前进

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.009

Drew Spain

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“I jigglyfucked you with Luigi!”: Person deixis in local multiplayer combat video game play "我用路易吉干你了！"：本地多人对战视频游戏中的人格分裂

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.001

Katelyn MacDougald

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The acceptability of epistemic adverbs in intersubjective contexts: Consideration of epistemic de pronto in Colombian Spanish 认识副词在主体间语境中的可接受性：哥伦比亚西班牙语中的认识副词 "de pronto "的考量

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.005

Dylan Jarrett

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The use of Co-enactment for joint stance-taking in Flemish sign language interactions 在佛兰芒手语互动中使用 "共同表演 "进行联合表态

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.007

Fien Andries

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.002

Ping Liu, Jialiang Chen

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No biggie can be a “biggie”: A taxonomical and statistical analysis of the pragmaticalization of no biggie on the basis of pragma-syntactic variation and co-occurring lexical items no biggie 也可以是 "biggie"：基于语用句法变化和共现词项对 no biggie 的语用化进行分类和统计分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.003

José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo , Vasiliki Simaki

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In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–2024 悼念伊曼纽尔-谢格洛夫 1937-2024

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.009

Steven E. Clayman

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